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There is no Blair-mania about UK Labour leader Keir Starmer

The Conservative government – now on its fifth prime minister since 2010 – has been a pointless charade for months now. What exactly a Labour government will mean is much less clear.

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A British general election on July 4 almost certainly means the end of 14 years of Tory rule.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has finally put the Conservative administration out of its misery. The government has been bleeding out in public for months. On Wednesday (Thursday AEST), Sunak finally decided to put an end to it by calling the vote.

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Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.”

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