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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Simon Jenkins

After Truss, it’s the club v the mob – the Tories’ last chance before Britain demands an election

Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt at prime minister’s questions, 19 October 2022.
Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt at prime minister’s questions, 19 October 2022. Photograph: PRU/AFP/Getty Images

Summer 2022 must mark a low moment in the history of British politics.

Whatever emerges in the next week, the mother of parliaments has been reduced to a bad joke, its constitution a laughing stock. Four prime ministers have been ejected from office in six years, none by the vote of a democratic electorate. A fifth is about to be chosen, again without an election.

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