THE House of Bishops has called on politicians to offer the electorate a bigger vision of society in the run-up to the General Election in May.
In a pastoral letter to the members of the Church of England, released today, the Bishops note how both the Labour government of 1945, and then the Thatcher government, from 1979, "changed the political weather". But neither of these two transformative ideologies - either establishing a welfare state, or freeing markets from state interference - were sufficient today.
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