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More answers to complex questions

Question: King Charles has cancelled a visit to the COP27 summit where countries attempt to slow climate change, after the UK prime minister, Ms Truss, ordered him to stay away. What would happen if the New Zealand prime minister ordered the New Zealand King to attend?

Answer: Awkward.

Question: King Charles will still be King by the time this column is published. Will Ms Truss still be prime minister?

Answer: I don’t have that information, but the good news is that there are only seven more Tory prime ministers to Christmas.

Question: Has Ms Truss doomed her government to defeat by announcing large tax cuts for the poshest Poms, funded by the most borrowing ever in peacetime, panicking financial markets, enriching hedge fund managers, and causing interest rates to rise by more than the value of handouts?

Answer: Kwasi Kwarteng, her Chancellor of the Exchequer, is now known as 'Kamikwasi'. You decide.

Question: Is postal voting an anachronism now that post boxes appear to have gone the way of rotary dial phones, the PM’s popularity and kale?

Find out then answer, and whether Three Waters will be stopped by the local body elections in Josie's Stuff column here.

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