The Selsdon Declaration |
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| • | We believe that individual enterprise is the source of all progress in economics, the sciences and the arts and that the task of politics is to create a framework within which the individual can flourish. |
| • | We believe that every individual should be judged by his actions and not according to arbitrary criteria of race, creed or colour. |
| • | We believe that economic freedom is vital to political freedom because power is then diffused among many different enterprises instead of being concentrated on the State. |
| • | We oppose the view that the State should have a monopoly in health, housing, education and welfare. |
| • | We uphold the right of the individual to cater for his own preferences in the market, believing that the State provision should supplement, rather than replace, private provision. |
| • | We see our primary role as to influence the Conservative Party, so that it embraces economic and social policies which extend the boundaries of personal choice. |
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| "It is not through the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interests." Adam Smith 1723-1790 |