Britons are not all in it together (whatever they might think)
The power of the “cozzie livs”
Few phrases penetrate the skulls of voters. Sir Keir Starmer’s “sticking plaster politics” has not stuck. David Cameron’s “long-term economic plan” did not last. Use of Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” is well down. One phrase has gone from Westminster wonkspeak to universal refrain: “the cost-of-living crisis”.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The power of the “cozzie livs””
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