UK takes another leap down the path to socialist decline

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The United Kingdom took another leap down the path of socialist decline when Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves outlined her new budget on Wednesday. Reeves, the U.K.’s powerful equivalent of the Treasury Secretary, is a top ally of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.