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VE day anniversary: why politics will take second place the day after the election

With just ten weeks to go, however, plans for the 70th anniversary of VE day remain sketchy

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

Breakfast is under way on 8 May 2015, and the party leaders have already started haggling. The possibility of a loveless Labour/SNP ‘anti-austerity’ pact has sent the markets tumbling. With the largest number of seats but no overall majority, the Tories are making eyes at the least un-attractive potential bedfellows.

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Robert Hardman writes for the Daily Mail.

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