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James Forsyth: Two men have united the Tories – Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

 Manchester

The Tory party has been at peace with itself this week. Eurosceptic backbenchers have given Nigel Farage a verbal kicking on the fringe, Cabinet ministers have stuck resolutely to the ‘hardworking’ conference script, and even Boris Johnson has behaved himself. Gay marriage, which so divided the leadership from the grassroots, has barely been mentioned, and you’d never know that just a month ago David Cameron lost a Commons vote on Syria.

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