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Matt Hancock and Rishi Sunak show why we need professional politicians

3 April 2020

8:15 PM

3 April 2020

8:15 PM

Coronavirus commentary often takes a familiar form, which can easily be parodied thus: ‘Why the Coronavirus crisis justifies the thing I was arguing for before the crisis.’

I mention this because this article could, I suppose, be written off in that way. It is a column of praise for technocratic, wonkish politician-managers written by someone who runs a centrist think-tank.

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