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Politics

This Budget showed the Tories preparing for defeat, not victory

3 November 2018

9:00 AM

3 November 2018

9:00 AM

There’s a spectre haunting the Tories — the spectre of 1997. Tories fear that history could be about to repeat itself. That after several years in office, they spend a parliamentary term arguing about Europe and plotting against their weak leader with the result that Labour wins the next election by a handsome margin.

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