Bill Clinton’s declaration that ‘the era of big government is over’ summed up the late 1990s political zeitgeist. Centre-left political parties could win if they accepted the small state model bequeathed by the Thatcher-Reagan consensus.
Now things feel very different, as I say in the Times today. The stimulus Joe Biden signed into law is huge, $1.9
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