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The impact of the Truss regime on rural and coastal communities
DAWN EVANS looks at the prospects for the local class struggle from remote south-west Cornwall, where pay is poor, union membership is low, second-home speculators plague communities — but the fightback is growing
CORNISH RESISTANCE: XR activists march through St Ives, June 2021

THERE may be one good thing to be said about Britain’s latest Tory Prime Minister: Liz Truss doesn’t hide that she’s an enemy of the working class.

Her predecessors Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron did — to an extent. Johnson hid it behind the jovial clown image, May behind a benign blandness and Cameron behind his “big society” One Nation Conservatism nonsense.

All of them liked to claim they were the torchbearers of Margaret Thatcher’s legacy — but Truss is the one who has truly been channelling Thatcher’s dogged resolve to crush the unions and disempower the working class.

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