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Status anxiety

In defence of Zac Goldsmith

27 October 2016

2:00 PM

27 October 2016

2:00 PM

I’m baffled by the reaction to Zac Goldsmith’s decision to resign as the Conservative MP for Richmond Park. It is being interpreted, even by MPs on his own side, as an act of opportunism, a chance to rehabilitate himself with the metropolitan elite after his bruising defeat in the London mayoral election.

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