At one point during her Premiership Margaret Thatcher decided to promote a policy of Victorian Values, as she saw them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/education_health/laissez_faire_02.shtml
It was of course a hostage to fortune not least in respect of drawing attention to the difference between the public and private lives of Tory politicians. Anyone who is not familiar may wish to Google Cecil Parkinson.
The death and obituaries of Lord Tim Bell Mrs Thatcher’s PR advisor who was made a peer by Tony Blair remind us again of the point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Bell,_Baron_Bell
Bell had been convicted of public indecency and was, according to several obituaries, a habitual cocaine user.
Its worth reflecting that there are indications that the morals and morality of the Tory Party have declined even further since those days.
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