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...The drop in trust “is very serious because this is what liberal democracy is about”, said Tony Travers, professor in the department of government at the London School of Economics....
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...John Major and Gordon Brown’s public interventions have reminded voters of the time when prime ministers were serious people, and Boris Johnson is, well, Boris Johnson....
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...Johnson, who is 90 per cent smoke, was never one of them. It isn’t even clear that red wall economics was popular....
...And while Sir Tony Blair appointed many new peers — dubbed “Tony’s cronies” — in his decade as prime minister, there have been relatively few new arrivals since he left office in 2007....
...followed the publication of an extensive poll — funded by secretive Tory donors — by the same newspaper a week earlier, which suggested the party is on track for an election wipeout on the scale of 1997 when Tony...
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