The new Iron Lady: Conservatives win Norwegian election

By Harry Phibbs
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Congratulations to Erna Solberg who has been elected Norway's second female Prime Minister and the first Conservative Prime Minister since 1990.

She is nicknamed Iron Erna - a comparison, of course, with Margaret Thatcher.

The Norwegian Conservatives are a sister party of the British Conservatives as members of the International Democrat Union.

What can we learn from Norway?

Happily there is an English translation of the Norwegian Conservative Manifesto and it includes a number of themes which British Conservatives would recognise.

It says the new Government will "reduce state ownership of Norwegian industry."