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Keir'll take you to the candy shop

Tackling obvious rule flouters could hit a sweet spot

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Joxley
Jan 05, 2024
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Over the Christmas break, Sir Keir Starmer sneaked out a policy announcement around tackling central London’s epidemic of American candy stores. Though met with bemused mockery from the very online left, the move is a smart one. It hits an obvious issue where the Tories have failed and one that speaks of the wider state decline that Labour seeks to coun…

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