Labour’s Thatcherite revolution
Invoking Thatcher’s economic model does not mean that Rachel Reeves is capitulating to it.
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Phil Tinline
Phil Tinline is the author of The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares, now out in paperback. He is currently writing a book for Head of Zeus and Scribner about American political nightmares.
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