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Originally Posted by denphone
In a interview with GB News polling expert John Curtice said that historical precedent means the Conservative party cannot win the next election, and that the challenge facing the government was the combination of both Black Wednesday and the 1976 crisis when the Labour government was forced to seek an IMF bailout.
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The nearest modern polling equivalent is the Tory wipeout of 1997. Then, however, Blair and Brown inherited a good and improving economy. If and when Labour enter office, even if that’s not til 2024 and things have turned a corner, they aren’t going to benefit from anything like as rosy.