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Lib Dems - Is She a Centrist?

She's instinctively part of the centor right. She has had to take a pretty tough line on some questions about emigration erer identity politics. But many ways, i actually think she has been always a sort of cultural conservative. This means that she has tried to straddle a position that doesn't make sense to a lot of people. It's both moderate in some respects, especially on the economy, but when it comes to valuesd and and identity, she comes across as really very right wing.

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