A leader on outsourcing and the private finance initiative said that Labour invented PFI in the late 1990s. PFI was introduced in 1992, during the Major years, and its boom was post-1997, the Blair era (“Rethink how the state does business with private sector”, Comment, 4 February, page 46).
We misspelled the surname of Anna Symon, writer of the TV drama Mrs Wilson (“The industry sells sex, and that’s… confusing”, The New Review, last week, page 8).
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