Published: January 02, 2019
The city state has a strange appeal to some Tories yet even its prime minister doubts its approach would work in Britain
The foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, on a visit to Singapore to learn how such a relatively isolated city state has become so successful is only the latest, but most explicit, of a long line of Tory ministers that extol Singapore as the model for the UK post-Brexit.
Quite how Singapore, an authoritarian state capitalist economy akin to China, has become the pre-eminent Tory model for the UK post-Brexit, as opposed other more democratic economies, is puzzling.
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