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Whitehall left counting the cost of Covid

8 December 2022

2:31 AM

8 December 2022

2:31 AM

Speaking at last year’s Tory conference, Liz Truss mocked those ‘portents of doom’, the ‘people who say that it is inevitable that because of Covid we are going to have a permanently bigger state.’ But despite the insistence of Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg and others, all signs suggest that an enlarged Whitehall will in fact be the pandemic’s legacy.

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