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What will fill the Tory-shaped hole in British politics?
Just as in Anthony Albanese’s blue collar rhetoric, Brexit has pushed Keir Starmer’s Labour away from Tony Blair’s post-class modernisation and globalism.
Britain’s July 4 election, announced yesterday by a rain-bedraggled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, is set to reverse Labour’s huge defeat in 2019 and send the Conservative Party, of which Mr Sunak is the fifth prime minister in five years, into an existential crisis of its own. Depending on how the numbers play out in Britain’s first-past-the-post voting, Labour’s consistent average 21 point polling lead might even turn its 90 seat loss to Boris Johnson into a 1997 Tony Blair-style landslide.
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