‘This is the moment for a Rooseveltian approach for the UK,” the prime minister told Times Radio yesterday. Invoking President Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal, a programme of high-spending, big state Keynesianism to lift America from the pit of the Great Depression in 1933, makes sense. It may affront Boris Johnson’s liberal instincts but the only way back to small government, paradoxically, is to start big. The state needs “to create the platform . to give the

Source: The Times June 29, 2020 16:07 UTC