Rishi Sunak’s middle ground strategy pleases no one
The Prime Minister faces two diagnoses of the Conservatives’ problems, and two contradictory solutions.
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Charlotte Ivers
Charlotte Ivers is a political correspondent at Times Radio and columnist for the Sunday Times.
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