Jeremy Hunt’s economic optimism will collide with voters’ realities
Telling people that things are getting better while they still feel worse off is always a risky strategy.
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Duncan Weldon
Duncan Weldon is the author of Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through (Abacus) and writes the “Value Added” Substack newsletter.
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Though the Conservatives still lionise Margaret Thatcher, they are raising taxes to the highest level since the early 1950s…
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