Conservatism: MT to John Vaizey (Conservatives have paid insufficient attention to their friends in the universities)
| Document type: | Declassified documents |
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| Venue: | House of Commons |
| Source: | Vaizey MSS, Hoover Institution, Stanford |
| Editorial comments: | The original letter from Vaizey offering to help full-time has not been found. He briefly took up the position of Chancellor of Monash University in Melbourne in 1975. Vaizey replied to this letter on 4 August, arguing that "the country has been on the wrong lines since 1941" and suggesting that "a major intellectual and moral effort is necessary to rescue our country from what seems abroad to be a totally catastrophic course". MT, he thought, was the "only possible person who can try to push us on to a different course". |
| Importance ranking: | Major |
| Word count: | 2pp |
| Themes: | Conservatism, Labour Party & socialism, Conservative (leadership elections) |
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