Tony Blair famously declared: “I can only go one way, I’ve not got a reverse gear”. But as the coalition’s first year taught us, David Cameron certainly has. The backlash over the government’s NHS reforms means that Cameron’s entire public service reform agenda is in doubt. His radical pledge to open up almost all of the public sector – bar national defence and the judiciary – to private and voluntary providers may never be implemented.
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