ABSTRACT
Sir Keith Joseph explained the decision to set up the CPS in an interview with Anthony Seldon, published in 1987:
[The idea] was mine and Alfred Sherman’s… I did it to try to persuade myself and then…the Party and the country, that the German social market philosophy was the right one for the Conservatives to adopt. I set it upwith Ted Heath’s understandably slightly grudging approval-to research, and then to market, social market philosophy (Joseph 1987:29).
