28 July 2022, The Tablet

Battle for No 10 – the moral outlook is bleak


Liz Truss, still British Foreign Secretary, wants to “unleash” – her favourite word – the animal spirits of capitalism by massive tax cuts.

Battle for No 10 – the moral outlook is bleak

Liz Truss and Rushi Sunak during The Sun's Showdown: The Fight for No10, the latest head-to-head debate for the Conservative Party leader candidates, at TalkTV's Ealing Studios.
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It will be bad for Britain if the battle between the two rivals for the keys to 10 Downing Street never moves beyond self-righteous claims to be “more fiscally Conservative than thou”.
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