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Chasing the latte vote

Across the anglosphere, right of centre parties are ignoring their core supporters

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

27 February 2016

9:00 AM

As I write this column Newspoll is showing that the Coalition and Labor are in a 50-50 tie in terms of the two-party preferred vote here in Australia. I wonder how the 54 MPs who defenestrated Mr Abbott are feeling as they read that news. When it’s all about the polls and nothing about core beliefs and principles you’ve got nothing to fall back on when the polls start dropping.

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