Can the UK’s new government restore people’s faith in democracy, in public life and in government itself in spite of unpropitious economic circumstances and a resurgent populist right?
Things can only get worse

Keir Starmer holds his first cabinet meeting
photo: alamy/ap, Chris Eades
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