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The unseemly race to increase the size of the state

16 November 2019

5:30 AM

16 November 2019

5:30 AM

‘Elect me once more and we will finish off socialism for good,’ declared Mrs Thatcher before the 1987 general election, or words to that effect. Not so fast. Thirty two years on and we are engaged in an unseemly contest as to which party can increase public spending, and with it the size of the state, the most.

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