ABSTRACT
Tory policies were steadily subsumed under Unionist policies; a new Conservatism on a Unionist basis replaced the old. Yet expositions of Salisbury’s policy, at home and abroad, always contained a great deal that did not clash with Gladstone’s thinking. Salisbury could not have developed the rhetoric of the new conservatism without his awareness of what the newspapers were saying, and of what they ought to be saying in the interests of his government. The correspondence with Austin corrects some of the misconceptions about Salisbury. It helps to establish his objectives in the speeches that expounded a new conservatism. It is surprising how little open criticism there was of Salisbury's new conservatism even when he used such language as this with its implicit condemnation of the capitalist juggernaut. Markets, employment and investment made empire a preoccupation of the new conservatism.
