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'The Lady's not for turning up'

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Is Britain Going to Be Able to Finance This Level of Spending?

If you're comparing this to any period in history, you'd have to compare it to 1956 and the Suez Crisis. The thing that those two events have in common is it was about hubris. In 1986, Eden was acting out of hubris, a belief that Britain could and should act alone. We had the same hubris on display from the Liz Truss and Quatiquatang government and administration.

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