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Jack Kessler

OPINION - The Tories stay calm as they hurtle towards electoral wipeout

I hate to be rude to the voters but this is shaping up to be quite a dull set of election results, in the sense that a lot of priors are being confirmed. A few reflections below:

1. The Tories are on course for an electoral wipeout of some description, with the party expected to lose around half the council seats it was defending. In other words, the polls were broadly accurate.

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