The choice of schools and hospitals is replacing quality as the focal point of the government’s transformation of public services. The creation and promotion of markets takes priority over best value, equalities and social justice.

Public services such as health, education and criminal justice are being marketised on an unprecedented scale, aided and abetted by a new breed of entrepreneurial public manager. Thatcher must look on with envy as New Labour grasped the competition and markets mantle. Marketisation of public services could be the hallmark of this government just as privatisation was to the previous Tory government.

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