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Yesterday's Men: The Brexit hardliners' last stand

The Slow Newscast

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The E-R-G, short for the European Research Group, is a hard-line Eurosceptic faction of the Conservative Party. They eventually brought down Theresa May and replaced her with Boris Johnson - achieving an almost mythical status within the party. In this week's Slow News cast, Tortoise's political editor, Kat Neland, charts the story of the remarkable decline of the E- R-G.

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