modernisers

Were Conservative modernisers right to argue that two-party government makes difficult reforms easier to pull off?

Modernisers in both parties tend also to support a more muscular role for Japan abroad, which means revising the pacifist constitution.

Both main parties are riven by contradictions: both contain modernisers alongside a grizzled old guard of conservatives and socialists.

Many of the candidates who are "modernisers" may be too young to be fast-tracked to high office, including Ms Smith.

Third, both candidates reject ideological boundaries and present themselves as modernisers.

So Tory modernisers think Mr Cameron should repeat the moves that have won partial success with gays.

If he wins, he will represent a refreshing new generation of modernisers.

Modernisers say blunt old ideas of Hindu nationalism are fading.

With their eyes fixed on the next election, Tory modernisers want to finish what they started in 2005, when Mr Cameron took over.

Modernisers around Mr Cameron welcome this.

China is ahead of the latest pack of modernisers, roughly 15 years ahead of India.

Also, the spread of freer media in some places has emboldened modernisers and exposed a wider public to their thinking.

In 1910 modernisers in the imperial court sought to whip up national pride by staging a world's fair.

French bosses badly need to follow in the footsteps of Danone and other modernisers.

It became a totemic issue for Conservative modernisers.