The truth is, the throwing caution to the wind approach of slashing taxes, removing restrictions on banker bonuses, and slashing other regulations such as IR35 were all consistent with what he and Truss had argued in Britannia Unchained a decade earlier. And these ideas found favour with the Conservative Party membership - with the idealised view of Thatcher's vision of small government, deregulation and low taxation. For the general public, this was not so much 'Britannia Unchained' as 'Libertarians Unhinged.
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