British workers have discovered the limits of the free market

Even if the global economy produces all you need, it will not give you a pay packet to buy things with, argues Sir Keith Burnett

It's time to tell it like it is. Immigrants aren't taking your job. Free market ideologues took it years ago. Why have we lost so many of the higher paying jobs that factories gave? Is it the price we have to pay for believing in democracy and capitalism? Is it because we are in the EU?

No, it's because we have been led by a misguided capitalist sect that treat free markets as a gift of God, rather than a tool for human beings. So let's think about how things have gone wrong, as illustrated by the latest manufacturing figures.

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