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Excerpt: the FT follows. Tabman wrote a piece on the Tories non-policy statement "Built to Last" the other day with the comment

the FT follows.

Tabman wrote a piece on the Tories non-policy statement "Built to Last" the other day with the comment

what of this document’s title, “Built to Last�? Daniel Finkelstein sussed out its origin back in July – it’s also the title of a business management volume by Jim Collins written in 1994

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Today´s FT leader starts

Built to Last is the title of a best-selling management book that analyses what makes a company succeed over the long term. It also happens to be the title of David Cameron's statement of principles, a mini-manifesto of where the leader of the Conservative party wants to take it.

The FT articulate the problem with the document

what the document does not offer is a framework to solve specific policy problems and dilemmas.

Not much of a narrative, in other words.

Do we have one? Hardly. Take the best part's of the conference agenda and you have the glimmerings of one. Perhaps Britain after Blair will take us further.