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What's the cost of political chaos?

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Severance Payments in Northern Ireland

Despite the costs of the wider two-mile-to-near economy, that there is a literal cost to the ministerial churn. It's potentially over £700,000 in ministerial payouts alone. They indicated that this was a matter for ministerial discretion and they did not reply on the specific point of Mr Sunak. We'll talk more about all this in a moment, but like so much else in the British Constitution, it feels like the rules were made for another age.

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