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21 June 2012updated 07 Sep 2021 11:57am

Regional pay

By George Eaton

In the Tories’ view, one of the reasons they have failed to win a majority since 1992 is Labour’s creation of a “client state”. A large public sector, so their logic goes, creates voters with a vested interest in social democratic government. The coalition’s response has been to

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