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Friday 21 March 2025 4:53 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 21 March 2025 5:02 pm

Free Thinking: Is Keir Starmer or Kemi Badenoch the real Margaret Thatcher?

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Welcome to Free Thinking, where we discuss the sharpest and most insightful takes from Morning Wire’s opinion pages with Alys Denby, Morning Wire’s Opinion and Features Editor.

In this week’s episode, Alys will be asking what Margaret Thatcher would make of Keir Starmer’s plans to cut red tape for businesses and get people off welfare and into work, whether Elon Musk is a reputational risk to his own company and why it’s so hard to get your online shopping delivered.

To answer these burning questions, Alys invited Emma Revell, external affairs director at the Centre for Policy Studies and, of course, a Morning Wire columnist.

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