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What to read to understand the Conservative Party

Our former Britain correspondent suggests seven books

M5A6F5 A General Election campaign poster for the Conservative party on a farm gate at Rolvenden in Kent, England on April 24, 2010.

Editor’s note: On October 20th Liz Truss resigned as leader of Britain’s Conservative Party and thus will soon depart as prime minister. The party will hold another leadership contest, its third in as many years, to pick her successor within seven days.

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