Changed?

The jerky progression from Thatcher’s outright denial of the existence of society to Major’s aspiration for a classless version and onwards to the present-day spectacle of a Welsh tory AM quoting Abraham Lincoln in the Western Mail is a remarkable one – not to mention totally unbelievable.

There are probably others a lot more capable of commenting on how ‘social inequality’ and ‘Conservative’ came to be synonymous from 1979-1997 but Angela Burns and her colleagues at Westminster and Cardiff Bay will need to do a lot more to convince people that their transformation is something other than skin-deep.