PM to bury David Cameron’s Big Society by launching ‘Shared Society’ to help Just About Managing Brits
Prime Minister will pledge to step up action to help “every layer of society” and end everyday injustices affecting the UK
THERESA May will unveil her vision for Britain this week – with a plan to build a new “shared society” that gives a helping hand to everyone.
The PM will set out major plans for a shift in the way government works by doing more for middle-to-low earners ignored in the past.
In a keynote speech, she will pledge to step up action to help “every layer of society” and end everyday injustices that are often overlooked.
She will say that previous governments have focused “too narrowly” on the very poorest, leaving millions who feel the system is stacked against them.
It the first real big picture speech she became PM last July, Mrs May will shift the Tory position on society once again.
Margaret Thatcher famously said there was “no such thing as society” in an era seen as every man for himself.
David Cameron reversed it with his “Big Society”, in which he urged charity and good neighbours to look after one another.
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Mrs May will signal more government intervention to spread read social reform across the country.
She will say: “The shared society is one that doesn’t just value our individual rights but focuses rather more on the responsibilities we have to one another.
“It’s a society that respects the bonds that we share as a union of people and nations.”
Mrs May will highlight the obligations we all have as citizens to make our families, communities and institutions work.
She will say: “People who are just managing, just getting by, don’t need a government that will get out of the way. They need a government that will make the system work for them.
“They need an active government that will work for them and allow them to share in the growing prosperity of post-Brexit Britain.”
