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Labour’s crackdown on hereditary privilege is hard to stomach

16 October 2024

10:29 PM

16 October 2024

10:29 PM

Do our new Labour rulers ever pause to think about how something they say or do might look to others? Do they consider, even for a nanosecond, how their behaviour in office or in private stacks up with the public positions they take, or how all this might look to ordinary voters outside the confines of Westminster? The whiff of brazen political hypocrisy – one rule for us and another for everyone else – hangs like a cloud over the new government.

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