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He added: "This statement needs to contain a commitment to growing the economy and a grovelling apology for the amount of money that has been wasted".

The reaction from local Republicans this past week though was either misdirection or groveling.

They wanted to watch Shafik squirm and grovel and then they wanted her head on a spike, while amplifying a largely invented crisis that delights their base and divides core liberal constituencies against each other.

In the movie, the editor of a literary magazine is forced to grovel for publishing a suddenly disfavored play.

This prompted her to issue a grovelling apology on Instagram, where she vowed "to heal the wounds" she had inflicted.