Contemporary conservatism can easily be seen as a hollowed-out creed. Combining heartless free-market individualism with an unthinking social liberalism, it offers little to those whose sense of meaning is securely rooted in their families, communities and country. Danny Kruger, one of parliament’s leading thinkers, argues that we must restore the sources of virtue and belonging that underpin the good life. Our urgent task is to repair the covenantal relationships of love and partnership that our families, local communities and ultimately our country depend on. We must go beyond a politics based purely on individual autonomy, social atomisation and self-worship. Kruger charts a course towards a conservatism that can respond humanely and wisely to the social, environmental and economic crises that face us.