[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/21/chair-of-competition-watchdog-steps-down-after-labour-intervention
The UK Labour government is going soft on monopolies, or at least proclaims that it will. This is an example of the sort of harmful consequences that follow from deciding not to tax the rich. The UK need money to fix all the things that the Tory government broke and the only way to get enough is to tax the rich. Since it won't do that, it has to claim that it will
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