The confidence vote that Boris Johnson won narrowly is already having consequences.

Tory MPs deploy their new leverage to demand vaguely-defined tax cuts and a new war with the EU over the Northern Ireland protocol …but what about the spending increases the same Tory MPs also want?

And as the UK economy totters on the cliff’s edge, how would it cope with an economic battle with the EU?

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