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ANALYSIS UNITED KINGDOM

No handouts? Forget the promise of the Conservative leadership race; three days into her term as prime minister Liz Truss unveiled one of the biggest single packages of financial support for households in recent decades.

She is a politician who sets great store by free market economics, yet not since the 1970s has there been an intervention on this scale in setting the prices consumers pay. This wasn’t though

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