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We are heading for a traumatic election night – but the fightback begins as soon as the exit poll is released

So long as the next Labour leader asks the right questions, the answers are already there

Matthew Norman
Sunday 08 December 2019 18:47 GMT
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Boris Johnson refuses to say whether he'll resign if he doesn't win a majority

The hunt for solace starts earlier than ever, and with a lie blatant enough to do honour to Boris Johnson himself.

But here it is all the same: if this malignant general election ends as expected, progressives should console themselves that this is as bad as it will ever get.

That’s the Johnsonian whopper. It can always get worse, and in this case it almost certainly will. And this election may not end as predicted. There remains that toxic tendril of hope that tactical voting and an electrifying surge in young adults doing the decent thing will combine to deliver a hung parliament.

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