May calls free market `greatest agent’ of progress
28 September 2017 |
2:07 pm
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said the free-market economic model is “the greatest agent of collective human progress ever created” as she sought to underline the differences between her Conservative Party and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour opposition.
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