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Why is Rishi Sunak acting like he won?

The News Agents

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The Transformation of the Labour Party in the Mid-1990s

The coalescence of the anti-conservative vote in seat after seat is now, we've got enough evidence to say that it is a profound and significant trend. That where the Lib Dems have the best chance of defeating the Conservatives, Labour voters hold their nose and vote for the Lib Dems - as we saw indeed with Selby. And that, as you say, John, is exactly like the mid-1990s. The transformation in just two years has been mind-boggling. I mean, come on, just two years ago, they couldn't even win the Hartlepool by-election against the government.

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