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Keir Starmer’s mission impossible

17 August 2024

9:00 AM

17 August 2024

9:00 AM

Labour backbenchers have spent years dreaming of the day they are in power and get ‘the call’ from the Prime Minister, inviting them to become ministers. But this time, a few were surprised that when the call came they heard the cut-glass accent of Sue Gray on the line.

Perhaps it shouldn’t have surprised them.

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