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Not even Rishi Sunak believes he will enact the Tory manifesto

The Prime Minister’s pitch felt like the final act of 14 years of Conservative government.

By Rachel Cunliffe

One must be careful with location metaphors in an election campaign.

So far, Rishi Sunak has already given us a botched chat with the punters in a brewery and a press conference on the pier from which the Titanic set sail – to say nothing of his flight from the D-Day beaches last week.

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