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New PM Liz Truss is even more intent on waging class war than her predecessors – but will her aggressive approach come unstuck as a range of pressures mount, asks ANDREW MURRAY
ELECTORAL LIABILITY? Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks to journalists at the Empire State Building in New York

RECENT weeks have seen the great traditions of the British state on full display. 

A government boosting bankers’ bonuses while cutting workers’ wages and planning anti-union laws. Flogging arms to conflict zones from Ukraine to Yemen to keep wars on the boil. And the Metropolitan Police shooting a black man dead.

We know bread is getting unaffordable, but the circuses aren’t so enchanting either.

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