David Cameron heads back to the 80s with Queen's speech plans

Conservatives give some of Margaret Thatcher's ideas another whirl - and steal Ed Miliband's one-nation Britain idea

Laws to make life tougher for trade unions. Laws to make it easier for tenants to buy their own homes. Laws that will prevent the government from raising the rates of income tax, national insurance or VAT. There was more than a hint of the early 1980s about the speech drafted for the Queen by David Cameron.

Politically, the prime minister is stealing the idea of one-nation Britain, which Ed Miliband briefly ran with half way through the last parliament. The Tory thinking is simple. Labour no longer connects with many of its traditional supporters. Margaret Thatcher found a way of developing a brand of working class Conservatism. So why not give some of Thatcher's ideas another whirl?