🏴🌹Remember "coalition of chaos"? It's back
The Conservatives are set to reprise their 2015 election message to thwart the Lib Dems march in the south, as Boris Johnson told me when we talked for an hour earlier this spring
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The Conservatives are set to reprise their 2015 election message to thwart the Lib Dems march in the south, as Boris Johnson told me when we talked for an hour earlier this spring
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The Tiverton and Honiton by-election result last week should really worry Conservative party HQ. Although Labour's gain in Wakefield was also important, there's 20 odd seats akin to the Yorkshire town. But 230 are very similar to what they lost in Devon.
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Come the next election, the Tories will argue Labour must gain 121 seats to have a Commons majority of just one.
Therefore the only plausible route to power is a coalition with the Lib Dems, but the two parties may still struggle for a majority.
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Therefore the only plausible route to power is a coalition with the Lib Dems, but the two parties may still struggle for a majority.
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Boris Johnson says:
"Do you want a sensible one nation Conservative party? This is a One Nation government that has done some fantastic things already and we’ll do a lot more. Or do you want Labour propped up by the SNP? We’re going back to that choice"
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"Do you want a sensible one nation Conservative party? This is a One Nation government that has done some fantastic things already and we’ll do a lot more. Or do you want Labour propped up by the SNP? We’re going back to that choice"
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Michael Brooks, Tory pollster behind '19 campaign:
"Imagine another three years of all your politicians on your telly every night arguing about a referendum, about whether or not the country should stay together? Doesn’t sound very attractive, does it?"
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"Imagine another three years of all your politicians on your telly every night arguing about a referendum, about whether or not the country should stay together? Doesn’t sound very attractive, does it?"
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Much as in 2019, Michael Brooks told me the Tories will play on voters’ exasperation - noting the electorate has been through two referendums, two general elections, two years of Brexit wrangling and Covid.
"They’re just sick of the whole lot of it”
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"They’re just sick of the whole lot of it”
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The path to renewing "coalition of chaos" message was made smoother by Nicola Sturgeon this week. By stating the next UK general election in her nation will be a de facto referendum on indyref2, the Tories benefit from her increasingly hardline position.
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Labour isn't convinced "coalition of chaos" redux will work given Johnson's governing style and seven years of turbulence.
One Keir Starmer ally describes it as “total crap” that “won’t land”, but at least two shadow cabinet members are highly agitated.
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One Keir Starmer ally describes it as “total crap” that “won’t land”, but at least two shadow cabinet members are highly agitated.
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For more on the next election - Labour's fears of "long Corbyn", Lib Dem plans to become fiscal conservatives, the Tories hopes of talking up indyref2, exclusive interviews with the key characters - check out the paperback edition of #brokenheartlands 👇
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