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Star Wars is full of interesting and relevant lessons for the leader of a country (or galaxy) in turmoil.
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Polling only provides a snapshot of the current moment but modelling across decades can help us predict the next election result.
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Anthony Albanese exhibits many of the traits of previous successful Australian prime ministers.
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He’s the third prime minister to take office since the last election and
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Sunak is the first person of colour to take the top post. But he faces a host of problems at home, as well as a Conservative Party tearing itself apart.
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Sunak’s grandparents were born in India before travelling to East Africa, where his parents were born.
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It has been a short but very eventful journey to the top for a man who has only been in parliament since 2015.
Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer and new Tory leader Rishi Sunak is set to become the next UK prime minister.
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Rishi Sunak is taking over as UK prime minister from Liz Truss during very difficult economic times.
George Canning, now the second-shortest-serving prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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Many still speculate about what George Canning would have achieved had he not died 119 days into his premiership.
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The law says MPs have to vote in favour of holding an election – and with the Conservatives facing huge losses, there’s little chance of them wanting one.
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It is time for the Conservative Party to have a cup of tea, a Bex and good lie down.
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The runners and riders in 2022’s second Conservative party leadership race.
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The shortest serving prime minister in British history ran into trouble even before taking office.
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When government whips turned a vote on fracking into a vote of confidence in the government, confusion ensued.
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After years of testing the limits of British democracy, the government finally got a taste of its own medicine when Labour used a parliamentary mechanism to lay Tory divisions bare.
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The Conservative Party is hopelessly stuck in the 1980s, and it may yet be the undoing of Liz Truss as prime minister.
Another prime minister shown the door.
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Only months into the job, Prime Minister Liz Truss is on her way out already, leaving her government in search of a new leader and a way to regain public trust.
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Europeans living in the Uk and British people living in Europe say they’ve been giving more thought to their identities since Brexit.
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The Conservative party is in chaos but that is perhaps a symptom of a wider problem in the British political system.
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Liz Truss has appointed Jeremy Hunt to replace the chancellor who led on the now infamous mini-budget – but it may not be enough.