The rise of the new Toryism Insecurity is the mood of the time – and the Conservative Party has adapted to it. The year is 2033; the location is the site of the old Free Trade Hall in Manchester, which stands on the ground where the battle for liberal economics was won in 1846. It was a fight that split the British Conservative Party in two. But this day in 2033 it is the scene of a new contest. A riot is breaking out between the less well-educated and the discontented, who have been left out of social progress, and those whose better education has made them the winners in life’s marketplace.