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Can Truss repair the damage of her first four weeks?

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Soon after being elected Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith summed up a test that he was soon to fail. ‘At the moment, I am a clean slate,’ he said. ‘It’s the next four months that count. If the wrong colours are applied to my slate, they will be there for ever.

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