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Tory MPs share horror over Sunak’s ‘secret election talks’ with Cummings

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Conservative MPs have expressed their horror at claims that Rishi Sunak held secret talks with Dominic Cummings about the former senior adviser to Boris Johnson making a return to government.

Mr Cummings has claimed that Mr Sunak sought a “secret deal” with him in a bid to “smash” Labour and win the looming general election.

His price for returning to the fold was that the prime minister would have to enact radical reforms – a deal that Mr Sunak ultimately, according to .

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