Strong Words Are Not Enough. Only Tough Decisions Can Make Britain Better

Daily MailDecember 11, 2006

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WHAT is that strange and unfamiliar noise that we can all suddenly hear? It is the sound of politicians saying the crashingly obvious.

Today the former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, who heads his party's Social Justice Commission, publishes a devastating analysis of social injustice in Britain. The welfare state, he says, is in a state of collapse.

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Strong Words Are Not Enough. Only Tough Decisions Can Make Britain Better

And at the core of this and of all our most grievous social problems lies the scourge of family breakdown, the decline of marriage and the rise of cohabitation.

A few days ago, in a different part of the political forest, Tony Blair delivered what amounted to a wakeup call to himself. Multicultural diversity, he declared, had led to separation and alienation b...

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