Prayut's about-face is vindication for Thaksin
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Having previously dismissed the universal healthcare scheme as a "populist" policy the country could not afford, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has had a change of heart that should be welcomed. In his speech last week to the United Nations, he stated t
With the best of his so-called populist policies now enjoying a new lease on life under the military-led government, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra might be ruefully taking note. Once denounced by his enemies as crude vote-buying ploys, quite rightly, they are being presented as worthy attempts to boost the economy and reduce social inequality.
Still, Thaksin can perhaps be consoled in his self-imposed exile with the thought that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Robin Grant
