That Starmer fella...

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ReekBlefs in reply to @hurricane_run

I've read that several times - where it describes Liz Truss very well, and Blair / Starmer very badly, is in the phrase 'limited welfare state'. Blair unveiled the most wide reaching expansion to the welfare state anyone under 80 had ever seen - it's clearly Starmer's ambition to do something similar. You have a stronger argument to make that Cameron was neoliberal than Blair or Starmer.

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hurricane_run in reply to @ReekBlefs

Blair ran very tight fiscal and monetary policy for most of his reign. The spending was financed through the growth in tax receipts as the UK benefited from upside business cycle trends. Off balance sheet wheezes like PFI allowed capital investment from the private sector. Sounds pretty nl to me.

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hugo7 in reply to @hurricane_run

Along with light touch regulations and lack of enforcement of regulation.

Still I think you'd struggle to really describe him as a proper neoliberal. Unless you're just using it as slur for people you disagree with.

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