one-nation conservatism en · NOUN
Etymology
Refers to the fact that all classes are part of the same nation.
Meanings
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(UK, uncountable) A pragmatic paternalistic form of conservatism, conscious of working-class issues.
All this links Johnson firmly with his predecessors – Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May. So does (with Thatcher as the exception that proves the rule) his eagerness – on full display in his remarks in Downing Street on Friday – to employ that emptiest of empty signifiers, “one-nation Conservatism”.
[2019 December 14, Tim Bale, “The real Boris Johnson: one-nation Tory or raging populist?”, in The Observer, →ISSN: