Black cloud casts shadow over a toothless Acheson Report blows opportunity to create touchstone for measuring inequality

If Sir Donald Acheson had been called on to write Labour's election manifesto before the 1997 campaign, it is certain that prime minister Tony Blair would have fought on a more radical and redistributive - perhaps even socialist - platform than anything put forward by his party for many years ...

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