
The Ministry of Untruths
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The Prime Minister's Home
i no, it's like a rabbit warren. It's much smaller than any sort of, no normal government department. And critically also, it's the prime minister's home. So even if the PM doesn't directly give the ok to things, he creates the enabling environment for what his team are doing on his behalf. But lying deliberately and unapologetically has never been a british political tradition. Yes, we're used to all of that, but not a lie, not the kind we think lee cane, borris johnson's director of communications, told us when we first asked about chequers.
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