Quote Originally Posted by MarcusCole View Post
First point - Thatcher

Second point - Good thing too

Can you clarify what you mean by establishment; to me it would be the Civil Service, the Courts, the Banks etc. Not the government itself though
Sunak is overall about as right-wing as Thatcher was, and his cabinet is comfortably further right than Thatcher's was. No way Geoffrey Howe, John Major, Michael Heseltine, Douglas Hurd or Leon Brittan get into Sunak's cabinet.

The Establishment is where power lies. Government, those adjacent to government with significant power, yes certain people in the Civil Service, but also those who run the media and those think tanks (again, including the 55TS lot) who have the ears of all the above.

And most of those who bank, or want to bank, at Coutts.