Class war in the House.
The row over the expenses of Michael Martin, speaker in the House of Commons, has highlighted Great Britain's embrace of visceral class-war politics as the ideological differences between Conservatives and Labour are set aside. When both parties speak of free-market economics and social liberalism,...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 137; pp. 12 - 15 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
March 3 2008
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