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The three ‘C’s’ that explain Boris’s historic election win

14 December 2019

2:07 AM

14 December 2019

2:07 AM

This was an election as important and as divisive for the UK as Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1979. Vast numbers of British people will never be reconciled to Boris Johnson as prime minister or to Brexit. In fact, a whole nation, Scotland, is already asking permission to leave.

My assumption, however, is that Johnson will go Red Tory rather than born-again-Thatcherite.

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