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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
David Bond

Analysis: Chancellor’s mini-budget presents Sir Keir Starmer with dilemma as UK returns to Thatcherite free market economics

As he stood at the Commons despatch box dishing out tax cut after tax cut, Kwasi Kwarteng could barely contain his glee.

Here was the new Chancellor burying the legacy of Boris Johnson’s big spending, higher tax agenda - an unashamed return to Thatcherite free market economics, aimed at delivering a kick start to Britain’s flagging economy.

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