truss's first task is to unveil a package that helps people to survive an unaffordable shock. She got the lowest number of m p supporting her in the first stage of this election of any tory candidate since the system was first used two thousand and one years ago. Boris johnson remains very popular within the tory prty, so poles taken in august suggests that the membership of the party would still prefer him to trust. And on that inheritance, whut do you give her plan for stoking growth in the way that she says it will? i doubt we're gong to see anything.
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