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Morning Call: The wails on the bus

How the row over the £3 fare cap shows Labour’s comms struggles.

Oct 29, 2024
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Good morning, Will here.

You can blame a lot on Margaret Thatcher, but she never delivered the famous line that “anyone seen on a bus over the age of 30 should consider themselves a failure”. The phrase is thought to have been coined by Loelia Lindsay, a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh, and was probably a wistful reference to her own reduced circumstan…

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