How to make the case for capitalism

An economic system that has delivered so much to so many is under attack. Emily Hohler reports.

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Last week, at the Bank of England, Theresa May "had a go", says Philip Aldrick in The Times. This Monday, at the Tory party conference, it was Chancellor Philip Hammond's turn. "The defenders of free-market capitalism are having to mass ranks, because, remarkably, an economic system that has delivered vast wealth across the West, doubling living standards in the UK over the past 40 years, is under attack."

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.