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! Don't forget you can receive this newsletter straight into your inbox for free every week by clicking the banner above.“If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to grow old.”leader Neil Kinnock in 1983, warning the public of the chaos that would ensue if Thatcher was voted back in as prime minister that year after unemployment rocketed to three million on her watch.
The week started with shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves saying a Labour government would be as radical as Thatcher and that she deserved praise for delivering “supply-side reforms” and rejecting Britain’s “managed decline”. That was beforeThe rhetoric is nothing short of astonishing. This was the woman who decimated mining heartlands across Scotland and the UK with many areas still suffering as a result of her disregard for the idea of community.
To me, this rather dull portion has the ring of the brief news bulletin they give on Radio 4’s Today programme. It’s blunt and quite boring.Someone hopefully asks when the Rwanda Bill can be expected to wrap up in the Lords that evening.A few more attempts at planning the day ahead founder before he asks if we shall move onto topics.A few awkward laughs. The atmosphere at these sessions frequently triggers awkward laughter, the kind often elicited by job interviews.
Yes, the bar is low. But readers with any sort of working memory may recall the PM doing his utmost to say that soaring prices were nothing to do with him – a big war in Ukraine done it and ran away.
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