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Just don't call it a U-turn

The News Agents

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The Government's Deliberate Strategy Is to Be Fuddled People

Government forced to climb down on the 45P tax rate. Had to bring forward date of Office of Budget Responsibility report. They've had to change their minds on kicking out tenants when they haven't done anything wrong. Who knows what's next? Is it the upgrading of benefits in line with inflation? There are a whole pile of things where there are booby traps that have been set by the government themselves. You think, okay, Liz Truss, you have set these elephant traps that are 10 foot deep and you keep jumping into them. And then you clamber out and go into the next one. It's hard to see where this calmness and reassurance comes from when they seem

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