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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Tories appear to admit election defeat as Cabinet minister pleads: Don't give Keir Starmer a 'super majority'

A Cabinet minister pleaded with voters on Wednesday not to give Sir Keir Starmer a “super-majority” in comments which may be seen as effectively conceding that the Tories will lose the general election.

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps argued that if Labour gets a majority “of the size of Blairs or even bigger” it would place Britain in a “dangerous place”.

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