Is Sri Lanka sinking and Ranil Wickremasinghe’s conservative economic thinking a thing of the past? “I don’t have to pretend to be who I’m not. My Labor party doesn’t have to pretend who it is not. Isn’t that one of the great challenges of leadership? It is hard to lead a nation when you have to pretend to be something that you’re not.” – Australian Labour Party Leader Bill Shorten By Raj Gonsalkorale Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe should perhaps take a leaf from what the Australian Labour Party Leader Bill Shorten said at a recent National Press Club speech. Mr Wickremasinghe though has to be given credit for not pretending to be who he is not. He has always been a conservative when it comes to his economic thinking. He has been and still is embedded in what Australian experts are now saying according to what Lenore Taylor has written ...
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