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Rishi Sunak: The UK's failed extremist

Rishi Sunak: The UK's failed extremist

He would be dangerous, if he wasn’t so useless

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Nick Cohen
Apr 23, 2024
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British exceptionalism means that we do not like to think of our politicians as extremists. Official paranoia, state-sponsored lying, half-mad ideas that play to bigoted prejudices: these evils do not afflict dear, sweet, safe old Blighty.

You need only glance at the press or watch the BBC to know that policies and politicians we would have no problem i…

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