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January 31, 2013

Britain Badly Needs an Abraham Lincoln

Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph

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British Obamas are like buses. As the cliché has it, you wait ages for one, and then two arrive at once. Adam Afriyie, the multi-millionaire MP for Windsor, has been touted as a surprise potential challenger to David Cameron while Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary widely tipped as a future leader, is routinely labelled a Barack for Brits.

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