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The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Williams

Why does Rishi Sunak talk down the UK? I blame David Cameron

Protesters with masks of Rishi Sunak in London last year
Protesters with masks of Rishi Sunak in London last year. Photograph: Susannah Ireland/AFP/Getty Images

The worst thing you can do with a Rishi Sunak speech is think about it too hard. The words won’t make any more sense and they’ll just come down over your regular thoughts like a thick fog. Nevertheless, there was something strange about last Friday’s apparently impromptu thoughts, and I can’t leave it alone.

Sunak is worried that extremists are tearing this country apart. Fair enough, good point, except he wasn’t talking about Suella Braverman or Lee Anderson: he was talking about the Gaza protests.

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