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What a brutish business politics is. Sir Keir accepted his fate with reluctant grace but towards the end the understated, bitten-back Englishness of it all became a little too much.
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- Primary source: Daily Mail
- Published: Jun 22, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC
- Coverage area: Culture & Society
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