David Cameron, talking about the Thatcher years earlier this week, remarked:
We never in the 1980s actually managed to cut public spending.
He’s right, of course. As this graph shows, public spending is one of the few things that can seemingly defy gravity. It continued to rise under a Conservative government that was ideologically opposed to the public [...]
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