first principles

“We can go back to first principles, as we did in the 70s and the early 2000s,” opposing bigger government and bigger taxes.

During her campaign, Badenoch vowed to return the Conservatives to "first principles" and launch a series of reviews in the coming months to shape a new policy platform.

The former business secretary argued that the UK’s system of government was “broken” and her party needed to go back to “first principles” to fix it.

But he was able to strip things down to first principles and do things more efficiently.

In fiction and in life, the Techno-Optimist might be sincere in their statement of first principles.