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Dec 2023
59m 4s

Sunak feels the walls closing in

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As Sunak squirms in the Commons and the COVID Inquiry, we wonder what will sink him first. His defence of Eat Out To Help Out The Virus? Or his own impossible-to-please backbenchers? Plus, how would the Tory Right’s feverish fan-fiction plan for a Boris Johnson-Nigel Farage Dream Ticket play out?  • “The last Tory leader who said ‘Unite or die’ was Ian Dunc ... Show More
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