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George Parker of the Financial Times looks back on the final full week of the parliamentary session as Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak reversed roles at Prime Minister's Questions.

Is the new Labour government right to claim it's inherited the worse public finances since the second world war? How can regional mayors help in the mission to train and skill up the British workforce? Can a new Conservative leader rebuild the party after its catastrophic defeat at the election? And how are sketchwriters, addicted to rollercoaster politics, adapting to a new era of political civility?

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Sat 27 Jul 202411:00
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