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Rishi’s plan to unite the right

Migrants attempt to cross the English Channel near the Dover Strait, 7 September 2020 (Getty Images) 
issue 14 January 2023

When Rishi Sunak addressed his cabinet this week, he tried to strike an optimistic note. Despite Labour’s commanding poll lead, the misery of strikes and the deepening NHS crisis, the Prime Minister said progress was possible, but on one condition: ‘There are challenges we face,’ he said. ‘But when we are united there is nothing we can’t do.

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