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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alex Lawson and Larry Elliott

‘An electoral liability’: business loses patience with Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak
Boris Johnson and his chancellor, Rishi Sunak, have been on a tax-raising spree. Photograph: Leon Neal/AP

“A confederacy of dunces,” sighed Crispin Odey, delivering his verdict on the MPs vying to dethrone Boris Johnson and lead the Tory party.

The hedge fund kingpin, once one of Johnson’s biggest backers, had just finished a long lunch with an old contact and was in devastating form.

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