The Conservative Party may have installed the UK’s third prime minister in seven weeks, but public frustration will not be so quick to change.
In times of recent political chaos, I’ve been out and about in different parts of Britain and found outrage, bafflement and a deep sense of betrayal: from anxious mortgage holders to pensioners freezing at home, and from business owners struggling without staff to first-time Tory voters who want their hometowns “levelled up”.
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