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Elizabeth: The Tinfoil Age

Elizabeth: The Tinfoil Age

This week, a new era dawns. Also, some thoughts on the problem of London.

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Jonn Elledge
Sep 07, 2022
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Elizabeth: The Tinfoil Age
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When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, he advocated a “government of all the talents”, bringing in as ministers people (men) who were not personal supporters, not even members of the Labour party, but who were thought experts in their brief. In creating her first cabinet yesterday, new Prime Minister Liz Truss took a different approach. Here, …

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