The independent commentary on British political affairs.
The independent commentary on British political affairs.
May 2008
Vol. 11, No. 11
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Some 20 years ago, in the aftermath of the Toxteth riots, Michael Heseltine bussed business leaders around the mean streets of Merseyside. He challenged business to play its part in tackling big picture issues of social deprivation and to find ways of doing more business in the inner cities. For a Conservative Party in thrall to Milton Friedman and his ‘the business of business is business’ dictum it was a risky, and in some people’s eyes heretical, initiative. I am…
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