Rachel Reeves and the Thatcher dilemma
RACHEL Reeves, Labour’s shadow chancellor, has described today’s Britain as reminiscent of 1979. For younger readers, in 1979 the UK was broke, inflation was rampant, nationalised industries were on strike, militant unions weren’t collecting rubbish or burying the dead, there was no investment and there were three million unemployed. The Labour Prime Minister was James Callaghan, […]
