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The Tories are too weak to capitalise on Labour’s failings

17 February 2024

9:00 AM

17 February 2024

9:00 AM

The polls suggest that Labour is in line for a general election victory later this year which could match or even exceed Tony Blair’s landslide of 1997. Yet the party exudes none of the confidence and maintains none of the self-discipline which it did 27 years ago. On the contrary, were the Conservatives not in an even worse state themselves, Keir Starmer’s party could well be in deep trouble.

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