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State of Chaos – the pitfalls of viewing British politics through Establishment eyes
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says Laura Kuenssberg's new series is deeply misleading about events from 2016 through 2022
Polarisation: In the years between the Cameron and Sunak premierships British politics was turbulent — but did we all really 'lose our minds'?

IT’S said history is written by the victors. Given the repeated shocks to the system of the last decade, the revisionists are getting to work early.

Former BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg’s three-part State of Chaos series — tracing the course of politics from the Brexit referendum to the fall of Liz Truss — ended this week. 

It has a stellar cast of real power-brokers. Three ex-chancellors, a former foreign secretary, special advisers from inside Downing Street, civil servants of the highest rank.

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