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One of the most extraordinary things about Sunak’s speech …

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Is that he chose to make it at the Policy Exchange think tank.

As Braverman has done before him.
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Rather than choose a neutral venue, he deliberately picked an extreme right-wing, opaquely funded think tank to set out his ideas for the country.

What signal did he intend to send, and to whom?

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Not to the mass of British voters who largely neither know nor care what the think tanks say.

But to the nameless backers of the think tanks themselves, who are busy planning a grim future for the UK.
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Sunak is sending them a message: that he is prepared to take radical steps to implement their agenda.

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They don’t need to look beyond him to their other tame candidates.

He will do their bidding.
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He is inadvertently showing us who is really pulling the strings.

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