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Kevin Rudd is just like Tony Blair

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17 August 2013

9:00 AM

17 August 2013

9:00 AM

 

London

There is something alarming, and distressing, for any sensitive Pom watching from afar your general election campaign. It is the similarity between Kevin Rudd and our own former prime minister Tony Blair: though Blair won three general elections, two of them by landslides and the third by a handsome margin, something Rudd will do only in his dreams.

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Simon Heffer is political columnist of the Daily Mail.


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