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The incredible shrinking Sunak

The incredible shrinking Sunak

Out of ideas and out of luck the UK’s government can only stagger on

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Nick Cohen
Jun 24, 2023
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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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