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Temple and state

“I HAVE BEEN here many times,” declared Boris Johnson as he and Priti Patel, the home secretary, toured a Hindu temple in north London (pictured) on November 7th to mark Diwali. And indeed so: he had last dropped in days before the election of 2019. His predecessors, Theresa May and David Cameron, visited too.

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