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How to defend free markets in the 21st century

12 February 2023

5:30 PM

12 February 2023

5:30 PM

It wasn’t Liz Truss’s failure to make big changes we should worry about. It was her inability to deliver even the most modest pro-market reforms after a decade in high office that ought to alarm us.

As Prime Minister for six weeks, Truss tried and failed reduce Britain’s tax burden to about the level it was under Gordon Brown.

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