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Hunt's ‘strivers versus shirkers’ reprise would repeat the crimes of Cameron and Osborne
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt delivers a speech during the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central convention complex, October 2, 2023

THERE’S a sense of deja-vu about today’s politics.

Over on the red team we have a 1990s tribute act Labour Party. And in Manchester the blues are reprising the austerity themes of the Cameron-Osborne government a decade ago.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt now adds Osborne-style “striver and shirker” rhetoric to his previous demands for spending “restraint.” Tax cuts, he hints to the party faithful, will be funded by another assault on social security. 

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