About turn

It's not just Canada where party politics can be turned on its head; behaving in a way opposite to what one would expect. Like Conservatives abolishing Ambulance Charges and Liberals re-instating them and then scrapping one of the Conservative schemes for low income people.

In the UK, Labour is reportedly considering financial inducements for reporting people fraudulently claiming benefits.

That's the kind of thing Thatcher would have suggested. Maybe she did?