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Boris Johnson’s woes are multiplied if he cannot ‘unite the right’

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In an opinion piece published in the Financial Times Professor Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London and co-author of ‘The British General Election of 2019’, writes that lessons from the 2019 general election show the Conservatives are vulnerable as a midterm by-election looms.
 
Professor Bale notes that although one of the keys to the party’s victory was the ability to “unite the right” with a promise to “Get Brexit Done”, it nevertheless remains vulnerable to a populist radical right insurgency.

This was covered in the Financial Times

 

 

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