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The Zahawi affair shows that Sunak is in the wrong line of work
The PM should not have needed Sir Laurie Magnus’s epically scathing report to decide that his now-former party chair had to go. He lacks the instincts, guile and character of of a true political leader
Sunak’s problem is that he’s right. The voters aren’t idiots
The controversies over Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs and Richard Sharp’s role in securing a loan for Boris Johnson will entrench the public’s impression of the Conservatives as fatally out of touch
Harry’s sad kingdom of the self-righteous
The prince who had so much to offer has succumbed to the hypermodern cult of unsullied rectitude and victimhood. His compulsive oversharing helps nobody, least of all himself
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