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Rishi Sunak's winter of discontent

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Conservative MPs: Sadja Javid and Deanna Davison

Sadja Javid and Deanna Davison have both announced they will not be returning to Parliament after the next election. Both are significant in their own right, but also tell you about how Conservative MPs are thinking at the moment. It tells you that Sadja Javid realises he's probably not going to get back into Cabinet or almost certainly not in the kind of job that he would want. But even more significant is a 29-year-old who most people outside of SW1 won't really have heard of - she was elected MP for Bishop Auckland this year. She has campaigned very movingly about issues relating to her father who when she was a child was killed in a fight in

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