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a “super majority”, as the latest polls suggest the Tories are on course for a heavy defeat on July 4.
If those numbers are run through the Electoral Calculus website it shows the Tories would be only the third largest party in parliament withIn an interview on Times Radio, Shapps said: “You want to make sure that in this next government, whoever forms it, that there’s a proper system of accountability... you don’t want to have somebody receive a super majority.“The concern would be that if Keir Starmer were to go into No.
He added: “There is everything to fight for, and we are fighting for every single seat in this country.
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