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...Timothy’s popular Tory radicalism has the boundary-crossing character of his hero and fellow Birmingham boy, the Liberal-turned-Conservative-Unionist Joseph Chamberlain....
...Urged by her joint chief of staff, Nick Timothy, Mrs May produced a manifesto that included a policy that would force the elderly to pay all but the last £100,000 of their care costs....
...That is why the adoption by Nick Timothy, one of Theresa May’s closest advisers, of Joseph Chamberlain as his hero is unusual and interesting — the more so since his career is a study in destruction and...
...Joseph Amodeo, New York On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century, by Timothy Snyder, Bodley Head RRP£8.99/Tim Duggan Books RRP$8.99 This is a book for our times....
...Nick Timothy, the prime minister’s chief of staff credited with her discovery of “Radical Joe”, may be urging her on the path to destruction. That would upset neither me nor (I suspect) Sir Nicholas....
...Under Mrs May and Nick Timothy, her close adviser, the Conservatives’ newest object of admiration is Joseph Chamberlain, the Liberal social reformer who was elected mayor of Birmingham in 1873....
...Timothy’s hero is Joseph Chamberlain, the can-do Liberal mayor of Birmingham, who focused on raising working-class conditions. Yet Timothy has spent his entire working life in Westminster’s orbit....
...The influence of Chamberlain on Mrs May flows through Mr Timothy, a biographer of the man. But even without this link parallels between his views and hers can be drawn....
...In his book on the Victorian radical politician Joseph Chamberlain Nick Timothy, Theresa May’s joint chief of staff, notes the belief of local authorities such as Birmingham in the concept of municipal enterprise...
...The prime minister is a big fan of Joseph Chamberlain, the Liberal statesman who held office from 1873 to 1875. Nick Timothy, her joint chief of staff, is his biographer....
...Chamberlain, as has been noted previously, is the lodestar of Nick Timothy, Mrs May’s joint chief of staff, so Downing Street will be all too aware of the lessons he has for politics today....
...Mr Timothy also shares Chamberlain’s belief in the active state: Mrs May’s speech this week spoke about the Treasury issuing project bonds to boost infrastructure and new efforts to raise productivity....
...His political hero is Joseph Chamberlain, a businessman, a can-do Liberal mayor of Birmingham in the 1870s and later a Conservative ally....
...Mr Timothy is a guiding force. He idolises Joseph Chamberlain, “the forgotten hero” of the Conservative party, who championed social reforms in the early 20th century....
...Theresa May launched her leadership campaign in Birmingham in July, declaring her heroes to include Joseph Chamberlain, a reforming 19th-century mayor....
...First, Mrs May has other advisers, including Joseph Chamberlain groupie Nick Timothy, and, possibly, her cabinet. Second, a government with a £55bn budget deficit cannot afford to fund a New Deal....
...Mr Timothy has tried to broaden the home secretary’s political range to areas like social reform and responsible capitalism....
...The fact Mr Timothy’s hero is Joseph Chamberlain, not a Tory but a radical Liberal often credited with developing “town hall socialism”, only muddied the waters....
...The finishing touches were applied by the Lord Chamberlain and Hugh Grant, press reform campaigner and actor, who played a comedy prime minister in Love Actually....
...He now produces tables and chairs that straddle both genres. www.gagosian.com John Chamberlain Chamberlain’s 1970s sofa – a seat carved into a foam block using 10in butcher knives and upholstered in brown...
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