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Sunak pins hopes on Cameron’s return

Just five weeks ago Rishi Sunak pledged to be the candidate of change, telling activists at the Conservative party conference that he would shake up three decades of political consensus.

Instead, on Monday he brought back David Cameron, the former prime minister who was in charge for six of those 30 years and who, through Brexit, ushered in the biggest schism in British politics for a generation.

Sunak has been on the back foot for months, trailing

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