After Brexit, Britain’s competitors are running rings around us. Sunak’s not even at the races | Rafael Behr

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This reshuffle will make little difference: we’re going nowhere as the PM leads us further down an economic dead end, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

There are differences over how far to go down the road of continent-wide industrial management. The European Council has to balance the views of big and small countries; net budget contributors and recipients; statist France and the pro-market Dutch. The outcome is always complex and incomplete – a fudge in perpetual progress.

What Britain doesn’t want to be is a nation of consumers importing stuff that has been invented and manufactured in China, the US or Europe, because those are the big players who got their act together, and we are a medium-sized laggard that didn’t. The prime minister moves people around to create the illusion of action. He appoints Greg Hands, a former cabinet minister with professional credentials, as party chair. Then, as Hands’s deputy, he, an aggressive culture warrior qualified only for crass provocation. That is not the choice of a leader who is serious about making the Tories fit for government. It is a classic symptom of intellectual paralysis in a tired administration.

 

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