Simon Clarke is calling on City AM readers to play their part in a once-in-a-lifetime battle for the survival of the centre right. Unless Conservatives can renew their arguments, they will be replaced by populists who only offer anger an no ideas

“Strategy is an overworked and thus devalued word, and strategic thinking can be no guarantee of success. But certainly in business, and especially at times of discontinuity, the strategists have at least a tendency to win, while the tacticians are almost certain to lose.”

In 1977, Margaret Thatcher received the Stepping Stones report from Norman Strauss and John Hoskyns, the cover note of which contained the wise advice above. Stepping Stones set out the basis for much of her defining work when she became Prime Minister two years later.

The importance of strategy is as true today as it was half a century ago. That’s........

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