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The nerve-wracking task of governing without the PM

7 April 2020

8:48 PM

7 April 2020

8:48 PM

I had been puzzling about why for most of the past 12 days, until last night, the PM and his advisers had been insisting – in tweets, short videos and statements – that he was still running the show, in spite of the evidence that he was seriously and worryingly under the weather.

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