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The Tories are in civil war. If that doesn't change, they'll lose

Some Conservative MPs are planning their careers on the assumption that the election is already lost

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

The general election is now Ed Miliband’s to lose. This is not a controversial statement: the polls say it, the bookmakers say it and in the last week several of David Cameron’s own ministers have come to believe it. The confidence that seemed to envelop the Conservative party before the summer recess has been replaced by a sense of doom.

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