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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

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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