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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Kevin Maguire

'Tory sleaze and cronyism now arguably worse than in the last days of John Major'

Back to the future then for the Conservatives with the stench of sleaze, political corruption and cronyism engulfing Rishi Sunak’s regime as corrosive as the pong that finished John Major the last time the Tories lost power.

Tax penalties, fixed penalty notices, dodgy financial deals, backscratching, bullying, security breaches and misuse of the RAF as a personal air taxi service is a return to 1997 with knobs on.

Because this lot are arguably worse than Major’s fallen with grubby behaviour viewed as perfectly normal by the guilty and Cabinet colleagues eagerly, nonchalantly pretending nothing’s wrong while basking in ignorance about terrible details.

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