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Little that PM Sunak can do amid two scandals now besetting British politics
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The Sunak government is faced with no less than three by-elections, with a high chance that it will lose part of them to the Labour opposition.
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LONDON - Former British premier Boris Johnson has publicly accused Mr Rishi Sunak, the current Prime Minister, of “talking rubbish” in an increasingly bitter showdown between the two over granting nobility titles and national decorations to their respective allies.
While the immediate reason for their dispute may seem trivial and even outlandish to observers outside Britain, the unprecedented personal spat between both men threatens to tear apart the country’s ruling Conservative Party.
