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The notion that leaving industrial strategy to the free market is somehow good value for money is nonsense, says North of Tyne Mayor JAMIE DRISCOLL
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THIS summer we’ll see Tory leadership hopefuls vying to outcompete each other in a neo-Thatcherite race to garner votes from their faithful. The risk is Labour sits back: “Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.”

Wrong. If the labour movement abandons the field of ideas to the Tory competitors, we’re giving them a free run.  

Yes, stay out of their squabbles. But this summer the people of Britain are facing a cost-of-living crisis.  

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