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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason, Kiran Stacey, Peter Walker and Eleni Courea

‘This isn’t a game of 4D chess’: Tories braced for bruising local elections

Rishi Sunak speaks to employees of a bus depot as he campaigns in Heanor
Rishi Sunak speaks to employees at a bus depot as he campaigns in Heanor, Derbyshire, on Friday. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images

At a bus depot in Derbyshire Rishi Sunak valiantly rehearsed some of the arguments the Conservatives are preparing to deploy against Keir Starmer and Labour at the local elections in May.

Starmer was “arrogantly taking the British people for granted”, he claimed, and pointed to Birmingham council as an example of how Labour had “effectively bankrupted the largest local authority in Europe”.

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