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Keir’s Thatcher love-in

Why did UK Labour leader Keir Starmer see the need to praise Margaret Thatcher. Are we stuck with one approach to managing the economy, whichever side of politics is in power?
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Keir Starmer will be the UK’s next Prime Minister. Few things in life are more certain. So why did he see the need to write an opinion piece for the Telegraph extolling the virtues of Margaret Thatcher. He said she had freed up Britain’s entrepreneurial spirit. Really? She also created massive private debt, driven by a tax-incentivised housing bubble th…

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