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 Rishi Sunak gives a speech at the Confederation of Business Industry (CBI)
Rishi Sunak gives a speech at the Confederation of Business Industry (CBI) conference in Birmingham on 21 November 2022
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Rishi Sunak was praised as a man of “integrity” by CBI director-general Tony Danker when he addressed the business group’s annual gathering in Birmingham this week. Members may have concluded that anything is better than “blathering on about Peppa Pig World” like his predecessor, said Ross Clark in The Spectator. But Sunak’s performance was hardly inspiring: “his usual enthusiasm sounded more like a desperate appeal”.

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