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The Prime Minister's Speech Stabilised Things a Bit
When MPs, and in this case, ministers get a taste for publicly not following the leader's line, it's incredibly liberated. Penny Morton said, got to put up benefits by the 10% rate of inflation. I asked Liz trust, are you going to sack her? She laughed at the idea she could sack Penny Morton. And so once you know that as a minister or an MP, you can basically dissent with anything the prime minister is saying and get away with it. We all like expressing ourselves actually following the party line is really dull, but it's much more fun to be a rebel, right?
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