The incredible shrinking Sunak
Out of ideas and out of luck the UK’s government can only stagger on
In February 2023, the Times, Rishi Sunak’s most dependable journalistic ally, gave the prime minister a glowing report. Liz Truss bequeathed him an “economy in freefall, a government discredited in the eyes of investors and a party consumed by civil war,” it said.
The crisis would have daunted lesser politicians. But Sunak turned it around. Circumstances…
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