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Matthew Parris

The Tories will win – but with no thanks to the North

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

7 December 2019

9:00 AM

It’s time to stick my neck out. What follows is anecdotal and my hunches have often been wrong. But I think that though Boris Johnson will get his overall majority, Tory strategists’ hopes of surfing a tidal wave of new support from ‘tribal’ Labour voters in the English Midlands and the North will not be fulfilled.

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