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The New UK PM: When Everyone’s Happy, Something’s Wrong (opens the original)
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It’s a bright summer’s day in London, and a certain political euphoria has settled over the centre of the city. Andy Burnham walked into the Palace a short while ago as a Member of Parliament and walked out as Prime Minister. He is the seventh PM in ten years, and in his first speech outside the black door he declared that his first priority would be ending rough sleeping.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T9mk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progre
Why the UK's Defence Investment Plan will lead to domestic unemployment. (opens the original)
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There is a phrase that keeps coming back to me as I watch the current British government navigate its first years in office: managed disappointment. The idea that if you lower expectations carefully enough, nobody notices when you stop trying..Keir Starmer’s decision to cut billions of pounds from public infrastructure spending in order to fund an expansion of Britain’s defence budget is, I think, one of the clearest examples of this yet. He managed to break away from the British public, who cur
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