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Feeling blue? The kids are all red
Privately, the Tories admit the young do not share their values on the NHS, nationalisation, the welfare state or the British empire. Good, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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FROM the outside, it’s easy to be pretty disturbed by the crew of slash-and-burn rightwingers that Boris Johnson has taken aboard on his Cabinet.

But it is worth trying to think about what is going on inside the Tory vessel? They are nervous too, because the Tories have decided to play a massive gamble.

By picking Johnson they are going for that old naval strategy of “shit or bust.”

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