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The Economist
The Economist
4 Nov 2024


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Britain | Poor law

The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habit

Expansive and rushed legislation remains a problem

LEGAL types who were troubled by the previous Conservative government’s low regard for Parliament took heart from a speech delivered on October 14th by Richard Hermer, the new attorney-general. In an address titled “The Rule of Law in an Age of Populism”, he said that a decade of instability had “stretched the fabric of our constitution to its limit”. Lax lawmaking, he said, had “the effect of concentrating immense power in the hands of the executive”; he promised a “reset”.

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Kemi Badenoch, the Tories’ new leader, plans war on the “blob”

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Labour’s budget has given the bond market indigestion

But this is not a repeat of the Liz Truss debacle



Britain’s budget is heavy on spending but light on reform

Rachel Reeves has raised both borrowing and taxes by historic amounts

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