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A privatised New Jerusalem
The PM is hijacking the memory of the post-war settlement with talk of 'building back better' after the pandemic. What nonsense, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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KEIR STARMER’S main line of attack against Boris Johnson on Covid-19 has been “get a grip of the crisis.” But Johnson hasn’t pursued his disastrous, privatised approach to Covid-19 because a better one slipped through his fingers.

Johnson isn’t throwing money at Serco and Mitie and Randox because he couldn’t “get a grip” on the cash. It isn’t a mistake — it’s what the Tory government wants to do.

Johnson made this very clear in his main speech at the Tories “virtual” conference in October.

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