Foreign News: The New Tory

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Hope & Challenge. Butler also faces—and he never forgets—a Labor Party which still commands the allegiance of half the British electorate. Many a voter is still to be convinced that Toryism has really changed. Many a Briton is more concerned to be secure in what he has than to produce (and risk) more. Many workers, asked to do in four days work that now takes them five, balk for fear they will be laid off on the fifth. Many manufacturers are content to produce for a known limited market rather than risk expansion. It is this attitude that Rab Butler has set him self to combat.

In a competitive world, Britain has to earn her way—if only to pay for her social services—and Rab Butler knows it. It cannot be done, he believes, by more security, more plans, more taking in of each other's washing. It can be done by more freedom and hard work. That is the challenge—and the hope—that Rab Butler and the new Toryism offer Britain.