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All the King’s horses... neoliberalism’s unstoppable implosion
While the Tory Party tears itself apart, the left is in need of a different script to address today’s economic, democratic and ecological challenges, argues ALAN SIMPSON

DON’T be distracted by the pantomime of Liz Truss’s resignation. A bigger game is in play — the complete implosion of the Conservative Party.
Ever since the days of Margaret Thatcher, the Tory Party has been embroiled in an internal war between competing ideologies. Now the gloves are off.
Neoliberal outriders stalked John Major’s government, squeezing one-nation Tories out of their parliamentary seats and replacing them with free-market zealots. Truss was to have been their finest hour. It barely lasted much longer.
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