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The post-war consensus is in tatters - no liberal leader is safe from the fallout

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Sir Keir Starmer has arrived at a uniquely untenable position among national leaders.

The fatuity of his latest rhetorical foray was a feast for us in the commentariat.

President Emmanuel Macron was rounding furiously on his own nation’s voters who, he suggested, had let him down badly with their insistence on electing an unhelpful parliament.

There would be enough fiscal encouragement to ensure wealth creation and enough compassion to protect the underprivileged.

For the longest time, it seemed to be working.

Then its chief rival Soviet communism collapsed and there could be no further doubt.

Capitalism would provide the wealth which a benign form of socialism would spend.

Until it did n’t .

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