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By Christian May Cast your mind back to the Spring and early Summer of this year when the election campaign was underway. It seemed the Tories were announcing a new policy every day, from the return of National Service to inventive new ways of protecting pensioners’ incomes, Conservatives filled the airwaves with ideas, policies and announcements. In the end, it didn’t get them very far. Labour, in contrast, chalked up a huge election victory and did so without ever getting into the detail of what it would do in government. Their campaign messaging was painted in broad brush strokes, with the …

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