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Covid has revealed the limits of the big state

28 July 2021

1:57 PM

28 July 2021

1:57 PM

When Rishi Sunak turned on the spending taps last March, a triumphant Jeremy Corbyn said he had been proved ‘right’. History would be written by the losers.

In the 16 months since, government spending on the pandemic has swelled to an eye-watering £372 billion. Wages have been nationalised, along with the railways.

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