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James Butler · Short Cuts: Labour’s Failure (opens in new tab)

Despite a few halting steps towards devolving power in Britain, England itself remains a profoundly centralised country, in which national politics always dominates. So why not send a national message? Keir Starmer implored voters to ‘choose progress over the politics of anger’. It is a classic Starmer line, all injunction and no argument. Why shouldn’t voters be angry?

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