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IT’S A TESTAMENT TO HOW WELL things are going in the current Conservative campaign that when I asked politically-minded friends what election films they could think of, the most popular reply was Brewster’s Millions.

Who knows what will be happening when you read this, but at the time of writing, a good explanation for Rishi Sunak’s approach is that he’s trying to lose.

Based on a 1902 novel, which had already been filmed four times, the 1985 movie starred Richard Pryor as a baseball player who has to spend $30 million in

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