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Peter Rhodes on ever-growing London, the mucky Thames and a timely warning from Boris

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03.04.2024

The Guardian reports, rather kindly I thought, that “the Conservative party will lose almost 1,000 years of Commons experience just from MPs who have already announced they are standing down.” Somehow the report avoided the terms “rats” and “sinking ship.”

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