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f Liz Truss, still going strong on her tour to rewrite history, represents one wing of the Tory party, who stands for the other? Rishi Sunak may have been the only man obviously left standing after her immolation by bond market last year, but it’s not him. In fact Sunak and Truss, for all their bitter rivalry, are on the same side of the most salient debate about economic growth. No prominent figure has yet chosen to stand explicitly on the other.
The debate is about how Britain ought to respond to the decision, first taken in Asia and now followed by the US and Europe, to put government largesse back at the heart of economic policy.
Truss and Sunak both believe fundamentally that Britain
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