What holds a country together? A thriving middle ground.
For it is the broad middle ground that decides who has the right to govern in Singapore, then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew highlighted in a speech to the British Labour Party in October 1967. He argued that this required the fruits of hard work and sacrifice to be “fairly and justly distributed” across the country.
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