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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
William Keegan

Taking back control? It’s the markets that are sovereign over Brexit Britain

Kwarteng and Truss sitting side by side in the auditorium at a Conservative party conference
Kwarteng and Truss’s programme was merely the reductio ad absurdum of post-Brexit economic policy Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

If I had been a member of the Conservative and Brexit party eligible to vote in its leadership election – which thank the Lord I was not, sir – I should have marked my ballot paper “none of the above”.

In a variation on Mark Antony’s observation that the evil that men do lives after them, Boris Johnson and his Brexit have wreaked so much damage on the Conservative party that only Brexiters stood a chance of being elected.

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