Ignore the cynics. Labour’s pledges on basic public services show the way towards a fairer, more efficient society
“Do you accept that a lot of this free stuff that you’re talking about, it sort of reeks of desperation?”
That question was put to Labour’s shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, on Radio 4’s World at One earlier this week. And it has become a typical response to the party’s raft of policies on issues ranging from adult social care to tuition fees, train fares to broadband.
The language of universalism is refreshingly appealing to younger people because they are so unused to hearing it in politics
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