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Sunak branded ‘a liar and a pound shop Farage’
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Sizewell in Suffolk, while on the general election campaign trail, June 19, 2024

FLOUNDERING Rishi Sunak was branded a liar and a “pound shop Farage” today as the Tory election campaign unravelled further.

The beleaguered Prime Minister was humiliated by members of the public on a radio phone-in as 14 years of Conservative failure came back to haunt him.

He was confronted by a young woman, Ellen, from east London who told him: “Everything about my future feels more uncertain after 14 years of Tory austerity.

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