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She’s got one of the toughest gigs in government, overseeing the small boats crisis to the policing of demonstrations and free speech, but what do we really know about her? Sonia Sodha charts the home secretary’s rise from her father’s corner shop to becoming Starmer’s secret weapon against Reform

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