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Starmer’s poor political instincts are often explained by his background in the law and the Crown Prosecution Service. The same is said of Rachel Reeves and the Bank of England. But this argument does ...

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The then-prime minister, Margaret Thatcher ... Both Thatcher’s government and the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan (1974-79) sold arms to the Argentine dictatorship.

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A British nonagenarian teams up with a French couple in an open relationship to put the United States on trial for crimes ...