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We urgently need to move beyond climate denial and short-termism, but neither Truss nor Sunak are capable of doing so, says ALAN SIMPSON

AS THE Tory leadership race tediously draws to a close, even Conservative Party members are hoping that any knock on the door comes from Jehovah’s Witnesses rather than Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak.
At least God’s canvassers admit to having no political connection to the temporal crises we are locked into.
The national press has also tired of the political trivia and are struggling to give much weight to exchanges of emptiness between the candidates. Regardless, Truss and Sunak steadily morph into the Little Britain of contemporary politics.
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