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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Maddox

Rachel and Ellie Reeves: How a school mock election launched the careers of Britain’s most powerful sisters

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When Neil Kinnock’s Labour suffered a humiliating shock defeat to John Major’s Tories in 1992, he would not have known that a school mock election coinciding with the national vote would launch two of his party’s future stars.

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