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An election of stark choices
Tory proposals are the opposite of taking back control, writes MATT WILLGRESS

WHAT the Tory general election campaign has shown — as has Nigel Farage pulling from Tory seats to help enable a Boris Johnson victory — is that the hard right is seeking to fully hijack the 2016 EU referendum result. 

However, rather than “taking back control” of our economy and public services as promised, it is in fact happy to sell off our public services to multinational corporations.

This is why the hard right is vehemently opposing Labour’s plans to bring back vital utilities and services into public, national ownership.

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