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Why do we have an increasingly authoritarian government?
This government has no intention of delivering prosperity: so instead of a carrot, it is opting for a stick, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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IN the middle of a public health catastrophe and the economic crisis that it has generated, this government has prioritised neither.

We have one of the worst death tolls in the world and official international forecasters estimate we will also have one of the deepest recessions.

Instead of dealing with these real and present threats to lives and livelihoods, the government has directed its energies towards repressive and draconian new legislation.

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