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Britain’s Conservative Party faces up to its mortality

Expect the five stages of grief

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks down whilst delivering a speech.
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By Duncan Robinson

Grief purportedly has five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. With a general election coming in 2024, the Conservative Party will run through them all.

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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2024 under the headline “Tory grief”

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