Given the economic, constitutional and social impact of what the coalition is planning, effective opposition is overdue. Yet David Cameron and Nick Clegg have had a more or less free ride, intellectually and politically. Received wisdom is that public spending is the most serious threat – not the operation of British capitalism. It has not been an entirely free ride – witness the protests over tuition fees – but there urgently needs to be a sustained and coherent challenge.
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