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London | Embattled British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sought to portray himself as the heir to Conservative Party idol Margaret Thatcher, as he tries to unite his unruly government before an election due some time next year.

In the keynote speech to his party’s annual conference in Manchester, he directly invoked Mrs Thatcher and their similar middle-class, small-business parentage, calling the Conservatives “the party of the grocer’s daughter and the pharmacist’s son”.

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