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this year. The current parliament’s term will end in mid-December – meaning this government is definitely not in the middle of its term.
Actually, Labour, the Tories’ left-wing opponents, secured a swing away from the Conservative vote in the Blackpool South by-election and three council elections in the last 24 hours. Holden said voters in Blackpool South wanted the government to fulfil their pledge to stop the boats.“I think what they want to see is things like us delivering on the Rwanda scheme, which the Labour Party has opposed,” Holden said.
It’s worth noting that while the Conservatives did manage to hold onto the council, they actually saw their majority slashed from nine seats to just one.After 14 years of a Conservatives in Downing Street, the Tory party chair Holden still suggested the problem is just that voters do not understand how much the government had done for them.
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