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This claustrophobic thriller is mostly set in one family’s apartment, but its backdrop couldn’t be bigger.

"However, many potential buyers and movers still face significant affordability challenges and buyer confidence may be tested against a changeable economic backdrop," she added.

The build-up music, the stage, the banners, the backdrop, the choreography made this feel like an election manifesto launch.

That so many governments are being given an electoral bloody nose against a backdrop of global democratic decline that has seen a rise in authoritarianism in some regions is particularly striking.

And early on Wednesday morning, it became the backdrop for a high-profile killing, when a masked man gunned down Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, near an entrance, before fleeing on a bicycle.