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By Simon Neville Sunak’s clampdown on ‘sick note culture’ has the whiff of John Major’s Back to Basics… and could lead to the same results, writes Simon Neville Back in the 1990s, as John Major’s government limped to the finish line of 18 years in power, his party came up with a plan they hoped would save them at the ballot box. In a precursor to the three-word slogans much-favoured today, Major told his party it was time to get Back to Basics. “It is time to return to those old core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to…

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