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Angela Rayner: If we have more of that, it is not going to help rebuild our country, it's going to damage our country.

On the recordJune 17, 2026
If we have more of that, it is not going to help rebuild our country, it's going to damage our country.
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Angela Rayner
Labour Party

Editor's note · Context

Warning about the impact of Thatcherism.

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