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Matthew Parris

The Tories have been diminished by this election

10 June 2017

9:00 AM

10 June 2017

9:00 AM

There’s an expression used in football to describe an approach to the game that discounts the virtues of elegance, style, beauty, originality and daring, and concentrates on blocking, frustrating and grinding down. It’s called ‘winning ugly’. While degrading the game, it often works.

But having won a match, a football team does not have to govern the country for five years.

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