Torsten Bell (now an MP, previously at the Resolution Foundation) talks like a (closet) Keynsian... but also defends his colleagues in Govt.:
'Some people think, or least talk about us, as if we are a government that’s defending the status quo & we are not... Our substantive view, underpinning all that we’re doing, is that the status quo is economically & morally bankrupt. And so, we’re changing it'.
If he's right a lot of us will be pleasantly surprised!
#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/20/investment-uk-crumbling-public-services-pro-growth-torsten-bell
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