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Kwasi Kwarteng’s market meltdown

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Is There a Labour Party in the House of Commons?

From Liz Truss's point of view, it's a terrible confluence of events and for Labour it's a massive opportunity. Rachel Reeves is very much presenting herself as the grown-up in the room, isn't she? I think there were a couple of other things sprinkled into the speeches that are worth mentioning as the kind of potential building blocks of manifesto. She talked about rolling out breakfast clubs as the beginning of rebuilding the childcare system. That makes a kind of economic sense as well as being appealing to people who are struggling in a desperate need of that. It at least throws some kind of red meat towards the membership in terms of saying we are in favour of nationalising something. And

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