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The Tories have only themselves to blame

6 July 2024

9:00 AM

6 July 2024

9:00 AM

I was amused the other week to read George Osborne’s Diary in this magazine. In it the man now in charge of giving away the British Museum’s collection recalled something John Major said to him in 1997. This was that the Conservative party ‘will never win while we remain in thrall to the hard right of our party’.

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