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    • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
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      Public services will wither unless the UK makes hard tax choices

      The Truss camp’s calls to ‘roll back the frontiers of the state’ invite the question: to where?

    • Friday, 31 January, 2020
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      Tory free marketeers know which way the wind is blowing   

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      Centrists are not ready to take on Jeremy Corbyn

      Challenging populists on the right and left requires a different agenda and new policies

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