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6 January 2017

What George Osborne thinks Karl Marx got right

The former Chancellor called for the "democratising" of capital. 

By Julia Rampen

As Chancellor, George Osborne was a political animal who used every occasion to parody his left-wing opponents on the opposite bench.  For many in austerity Britain, by contrast, he was the face of the preening, moneyed elite.

But it turns out he also found the time to read his Karl Marx.

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