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Boris causes problems – but is he still the star of conference?
Philip Hammond has just told Radio 4 that Boris Johnson’s absolute two- year limit on a transition, nailed to the church door in his “Sun” article, was “a rhetorical flourish”. I think that is Treasury-speak for “a giant porkie”. He’d seen the phrase “about two years” in the PM’s speech and did not attack it…