Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Class identity: why fancy freebies are a bigger political problem for this Labour government than its Tory predecessors

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par Vladimir Bortun, Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford

While much of the intense media coverage of the UK government’s freebies scandal might be attributable to overzealous scrutiny by a predominantly right-of-centre printed press, there is at least one important issue at the heart of all this.

It should be acknowledged that the gifts are in line with existing regulations – and also arguably less controversial than some of the donations received by members of former Conservative governments. But this Labour…

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