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Dominic Raab struggles to say the right thing

It has not been a good week for Dominic Raab.

Things started to go wrong on Tuesday, when the justice secretary — or deputy prime minister as he is now always described on his department’s website — was given a coveted slot addressing his party’s conference.

In this extract from his speech, I have retained the original layout, style and punctuation:

Only…