James Hardy | This House Believes The Free Market is the Enemy of Freedom and Democracy

James Hardy speaks as Second Proposition for the motion on 11th May 2023 at 8:00 in the Debating Chamber.
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Some argue that in a world of growing inequality, where eight men own as much wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion people and transnational corporations can threaten to move capital fluidly across borders, that freedom is made a nonsense and democracy is eroded.

Others characterise the free market as responsible for unprecedented global and British prosperity, arguing this economic model goes organically hand-in-hand with representative democracy.

Liz Truss's premiership in particular has recently reignited a discussion about the role of the free market as an ideological construct.
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