The British election: why we're backing Labour

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  The Economist Hello, I'm Rosie Blore.

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  I host The Intelligence, our daily news and current affairs podcast.

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  Welcome to Editor's Picks.

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  Here's an article handpicked from the latest edition of The Economist.

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  You would never know it from a low wattage campaign.

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  But after 14 years of Conservative rule,

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  Britain is on the threshold of a Labour victory so sweeping that it may break records.

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  No party fully subscribes to the ideas that The Economist holds dear.

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  The economic consensus in Britain has shifted away from liberal values,

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  free trade, individual choice and limits to state intervention.

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  But elections are about the best available choice.

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  And that is clear.

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  If we had a vote on July 4th, we too would pick Labour,

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  because it has the greatest chance of tackling the biggest problem that Britain faces –

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  a chronic and debilitating lack of economic growth.

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  Consider first the alternatives.

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  We can discard some immediately.

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  The Scottish National Party wants to dismember Britain, not run it.

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  The Greens make student politics look rigorous.

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  Reform UK, Nigel Farage's outfit,

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