In the three days since the publication of the Conservative manifesto, both men had been bombarded with calls from MPs expressing dismay at the policy, which their opponents had branded the ‘dementia tax’. On the doorstep the policy was toxic, and the widespread goodwill towards May had evaporated almost overnight. Something had to be done, but what? The situation was complicated by the fact that divisions over the policy had spread beyond the familiar tensions between May’s chiefs of staff and the Australians. Fiona Hill, who felt politics deep in her bones, found herself pitched into
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