'We are a poor country, where everything is expensive, despite what the Tories say'

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For 13 years, Conservative Party leaders "have traipsed up to one party conference after another attempting to spin the reality away: that we are a poor country where everything is expensive", writes Tom McTague for UnHerd. Walking around Manchester this week "was a grim reminder of this paradoxical reality" that the British state is "both distant and impotent; the city's successes its own, but its future in someone else's hands". Outside the southeast, "Manchester is the home of Britain's great hope of economic success", he writes, but "maybe it is also where it goes to die".

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