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David Frost: Andy Burnham and the Labour Party...

Andy Burnham and the Labour Party seem unable to grasp how a modern economy works. They like the big state and high spending. They don't get that an economy is about free people acting, not a government telling. Burnham's statement to parliament today set out only a different style of government activism, still financed by the same overburdened private sector, by “robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul”. Labour can't grasp the problems. So their solutions will inevitably be mistaken. And this is why the Burnham government will fail just as his predecessor's did. My Telegraph column tonight 👇 https://telegraph.co.uk/gift/84ea808d88e72f42

Liz Webster: This interview tells me that...

This interview tells me that: Brexit failed comprehensively. The Conservatives must become pro-European again, but Britain must reach that conclusion without requiring Brexit’s architects to admit what they did. That is Seldon’s reconciliation project. He seems to understand where Britain must go, but possibly fears that telling the full truth about how it got here will make the journey impossible. But the risk is that appeasement preserves the original myths, allowing the manipulation to continue. Voldemort survives.

Liz Webster: A private project underwritten...

A private project underwritten by up to £71 million of public money, while the taxpayer receives only a minority stake and rights to part of the concentrate, not control of the company or the value chain. Britain still lacks the refinery needed to turn that concentrate into usable tungsten. Public money absorbs the risk; private shareholders retain control and capture the gains. That is not industrial sovereignty @andyburnham 👉 it is corporate welfare dressed up as national security.
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