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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Maddox

Sunak’s new tactic will lead to Tory voters staying at home, warns Boris Johnson campaign strategist

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One of the architects of the Vote Leave Brexit referendum victory in 2016 and Boris Johnson election win in 2019 has warned that the Tory leadership’s new strategy is likely to be counterproductive and see voters stay at home.

Lee Cain, who was Boris Johnson’s communications director in Downing Street, has hit out at the Conservative Party now warning against a Labour “supermajority” suggesting that his experience showed it would suppress the Tory vote.

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