Rishinomics means centralisation like we've scarcely seen before | Simon Jenkins

Forget government by local communities in their own interests: in Sunak’s Britain, Whitehall will be the master of all it surveys

So this is Rishinomics. The Tory party might well wonder, what is this cuckoo in our nest? It means colossal public spending, stupefying debt, subsidies doled out on all sides, and a private sector strangled by whimsical regulation. Perhaps a truth is emerging. Old-fashioned Toryism was always the free market’s fair-weather friend. At the first sign of trouble, it runs...