Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Philip Hammond: Britain can do better than a blank sheet of paper or the Lib Dems

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Philip Hammond’s speech to the Conservative conference was accompanied by the set of circumstances that most ministers have bad dreams about after eating too much cheese.

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