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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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The Pre-Election Tax and Spend Debate

I was going to say objective assessment of the last 13 years would recognise that the austerity measures of the early years and those adopted more recently by Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hanh. But so too Patrick is the problem of anything that goes beyond an assessment from the Tory party of the limits of spending portrayed in our mighty media as tax bombshells for Labour. You can make an assessment that implies you need more spending but if you specify more spending all hell breaks loose, it is a great dilemma. Nigel Jones has been reading Anthony Selden's book Johnson at number 10, he was interested in one paragraph,. All prime ministers are unusual people, exceptionally talented and individualistic, they see the

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