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After his by-election win he is set to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the party (and the country’s) leadership
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Britain’s next prime minister outlines plans that look a lot like those of the outgoing one
Britain’s next leader will also have to confront a culture of tolerable decline, writes Mark Sedwill
He shows little sign that he grasps the scale or urgency of the tasks that await him
New prime ministers tend to get a polling bounce. Those don’t always last
