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The key to understanding the mini-Budget is that it was designed to defend the chancellor’s position against the foreign secretary

, the foreign secretary. She advertised her opposition to the rise in national insurance in September, by speaking out in the public forum known as a cabinet meeting, and has been sitting in the “low tax” lane ever since as events have pushed more and more Conservative MPs in her direction.

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