Great Britain is in the worst economic crisis in 50 years.
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It is said that every era seeks its leaders. The British offer a few examples: Margaret Thatcher freed the UK from the shackles of corporatism with an iron fist. Tony Blair steered Britain onto a ‘third way’ between Thatcher’s libertarian extremism and Labour’s socialist fantasies. Boris Johnson led his compatriots to believe that Brexit would put them back in control of their destiny in a world dominated by economic constraints and major political powers. And Liz Truss?
“I fought as a Conservative and I will govern as a Conservative,” announces Britain’s new Prime Minister. For just over half of the 0.3 per cent of all Britons – so few actually voted for Truss – it’s balm for conservative souls weighed down by taxes, government constraints and cultural change.
For the outsized rest of the kingdom, these are first and foremost ideological phrases, hardly relevant to their most pressing problems.
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