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Keir Starmer/Twitter In a 2016 interview with the Guardian, former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg made a revealing recollection: the Conservatives, he recalled, refused to build social housing because it would “create Labour voters”. Clegg’s remarks certainly align with the evidence: in Osborne’s spending review of 2010, social housing funding was cut by 60%; between 2010 and 2017, the number of homes provided at social rent fell by a staggering 97%. They also highlight something important: the Conservatives have a keen sense of class formation. Nothing better evidenced this than Thatcher’s privatisation drive. Privatisation did not just dismantle publicly-owned organisations, it also created a section of society whose interests were aligned to those of the market. Seeking to supplant public ownership in the common good with private ownership for individual gain, Thatcher offered workers free shares in their newly privatised firms; in the case of BT, 96% took up her of

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