Rishi Sunak needs to show the public he can do more than crisis management
The PM’s current priorities are easy to achieve and do nothing to define his form of Conservatism.
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Freddie Hayward
Freddie Hayward is political correspondent at the New Statesman. He interviews leading political figures, writes Morning Call and appears on the New Statesman Podcast.
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