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General Election: Surprise among the Cabinet?
One Cabinet minister told me a rumour of an early election announcement had gone around the reception room just before they filed into Cabinet. Until that moment, the minister said, “not a clue.” The minister said he looked long and hard round the room to check facial expressions as the Prime Minister said more or less…