Matthew Jeffery: Privatisation didn’t fail. We failed privatisation
Matthew Jeffery is one of Britain’s most experienced global talent and recruitment leaders, with more than 25 years advising boards and C-suite executives on workforce strategy, skills, and productivity. Privatisation was one of the great achievements of modern Conservatism. But we allowed others to claim it had failed.
- ▪Matthew Jeffery is one of Britain’s most experienced global talent and recruitment leaders, with more than 25 years advising boards and C-suite executives on workforce strategy, skills, and productivity.
- ▪Privatisation was one of the great achievements of modern Conservatism.
- ▪But we allowed others to claim it had failed.
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Matthew Jeffery is one of Britain’s most experienced global talent and recruitment leaders, with more than 25 years advising boards and C-suite executives on workforce strategy, skills, and productivity. Privatisation was one of the great achievements of modern Conservatism. But we allowed others to claim it had failed. The truth is simple. The policy succeeded. The system around it did not. After the achievements of the 1980s, too many Conservatives lost their reforming zeal. We became custodians of the status quo when we should have remained the party of change. Labour seized the moment, rewrote the history and turned a Conservative success into a political weakness. Politics loathes a vacuum. If one side stops defending an idea, the other side gets to redefine it.
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