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They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
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The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
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