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The future looks bleak for Tory free-marketeers

21 May 2021

11:40 PM

21 May 2021

11:40 PM

The free-market Tory right’s victory on the Australia trade deal obscures the fact that the economic direction of the party has turned against them since the Brexit vote. As I say in the Times today, this is a big-spending Tory government that believes in an active role for the state in fostering innovation and driving growth.

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