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How the British government sounds like a tabloid
Whitehall talk of “boosts” and “bumper packages” is meant to clarify. Instead it confuses.
HERE’S A quiz. Which of the following sentences were published by: 1) The Sun newspaper; 2) His Majesty’s Treasury; or 3) The Home Office?
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