Free Trade, Free Peoples

Firebrand William Cobbett expressed his dismay at hearing a fellow MP complain that free trade would teach the people of India to expect the same rights as those demanded by people in Britain. It was, wrote Cobbett, the kind of sentiment that should never be heard in any Parliament, and least of all that of Westminster.

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