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How Brexit remade the Conservative Party, with Tim Bale

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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How Brexit Has Affected the Conservative Party

I still think it will be quite difficult for the Tories. Having said you never say never, politics is quite volatile and voters don't have the party loyalties as much as they used to. The problem is how do you mobilise them? It'll probably have to be indirectly through the immigration policy, the asylum policy, for example. There's absolutely no doubt that it was Brexit plus Jeremy Corbyn that did it for the Conservative Party. That's not really going to be something that they repeat this time around.

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