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Evening Standard
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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: ‘Romantic’ Boris says he’s one of Smiley’s people

In the Londoner today: an insight into the Prime Minister’s character, as he talks about his relationship with the books of John le Carré. And: Frank Skinner on how there are things more important than football, Jodie Turner-Smith says she had magical powers as a child, Gyles Brandreth’s memoir. John Krasinski in town for A Quiet Place II, and our SW1A.

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