Truss v Starmer: the first showdown
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Is This a Challenge to the Labor Party?
There is no white man holding one of the great offices of state for the first time over prime minister, chancellor, home secretary, foreign secretary. It was only tweny years ago that paul boiting became the first black cabinet minister for labor and at that time there were almost no ethnic minority m ps for the conservative party. Toy saythat if you just look at the first names of the last four finance ministers of, say, france, bruno, michel pierre, francois germany, christian, olaf peter rolfgang, this is an extraordinary transformation.
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