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Osborne's living-wage wheeze will decide the fate of one-nation Conservatism

The Chancellor's big idea does less for the working poor than you might think – but it's still a decisive change

11 July 2015

9:00 AM

11 July 2015

9:00 AM

In his hastily scripted victory speech, David Cameron hit upon a mission that he wanted to define his remaining years in office. ‘I want my party, and I hope the government I would like to lead, to reclaim a mantle that we should never have lost: the mantle of one nation,’ he said.

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