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Lost in the bullring

The latest news as the Conservative Party conference gets underway

This was supposed to be prime minister Liz Truss’s honeymoon. It is more like sobering up in Vegas with a wedding ring and a tattoo of the stranger you met at the roulette wheel the night before.

The Tory conference opens amid open rebellion within the party and with a YouGov poll showing a 33-point lead for Labour. Under such circumstances, universities and research are probably not high on the prime minister’s list of priorities—indeed, dear reader, we still do not have a science minister.

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