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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Michael Savage Policy editor

U-turn if you want to? How the Tories spent two months going backwards

Combination image of Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak
One step forward … Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

Such has been the political chaos over the last two months that it has felt as if there hasn’t been a single week without a major government U-turn. There is a good reason for that – there hasn’t been. Since the start of September, the Truss and Sunak administrations have so far averaged well over one significant U-turn a week. Here are some of the most notable reversals:

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