The Spectator

Barometer | 25 June 2015

Plus: the figures on knife crime, crowds at religious festivals, and the prevalence of paedophilia

issue 27 June 2015

The spirit of 1945

No one would have been more surprised at the sight of 100,000 people marching in London under the banner ‘End Austerity Now’ and demanding ‘Tories Out’ than Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade and briefly Chancellor of the Exchequer in Attlee’s government.
— Hard though it might be to remember now, but austerity was once a proud Labour policy.

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