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LeftishBrit

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4. It wasn't a 'surprise loss'

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sat Jul 29, 2023, 07:54 AM

Jul 2023

It was a very narrow failure to *gain* a previously firmly Tory seat. On a night when they did gain another such seat.

FFS Labour, don't start to panic; leave that to the Tories!

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It wasn't a 'surprise loss' LeftishBrit Jul 2023 #4