POLITICS
Dec 17, 2021
3 minutes
By Gaby Hinsliff
In politics, as in life, there are few more tortured questions than “What if…?” Defeated parties rake obsessively over the past, bickering over any hint of an opportunity missed. Even ruling parties start looking around as the shine wears off, wondering if they would fare better under someone new. What is perhaps unusual about 2021 is that both seem to be happening at once.
Cue Steve Richards’s a book stuffed full of roads less travelled. His list of politicians who were once widely tipped for No 10, only to fall short in
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