Theme : conservative
- Pick'n'mix progressives Gordon Brown should be careful what he wishes for. In his tub-thumping 2004 conference speech, he declared: "I want us to build a shared national purpose, a British progressive consensus." He repeated the call for a "progressive consensus" a dozen times and for a while this was the animating Brownite theme. It seems the Tories were listening. from : charlieedwards 10th September 2008