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Alastair Campbell

OPINION - Alastair Campbell: The public needs to know what change will mean for them

Given any poll you look at points towards a Labour victory at the next election, what I am about to say may seem counter-intuitive. Namely, that Keir Starmer is by no means certain of victory, for the simple reason that it will take the kind of swing which UK politics rarely sees.

Looking back at the past 13 years, it is hard to think of pretty much anything that has improved and the Tories should be toast. With the carnival of post-truth populism which gave us Brexit, then Johnson, then Kamikwazi Trussonomics, and now Rishi Sunak struggling to control his divided party, you can be forgiven for thinking the only question is how big the Labour majority will be.

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