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A massive cross-party achievement
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London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
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British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Pick up sticks
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The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
Ice and fire
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At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work