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Rats in a Sack: The Tory civil war is a go

Oh God, What Now?

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The Facts of Life Are Conservative

If everyone who left the workforce during COVID came back into it, they'd be able to cut income tax by 2P. I know loads of people in the late fifties who quietly admit I literally just don't have to work anymore and there is nothing you can do to persuade them to come back. If people have got enough money to retire, it's going to be extremely difficult to incentivize them to start working again. The facts of life are conservative. You work hard, you build up money, you retire, you're aspirational. But that doesn't actually bear any relation to the lies that people now lead. Tom, Melstride also said, and this was

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