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Don’t bank on the Tory Party quietly dying off
The party of the landed gentry which became the party of the manufacturing capitalist class — and then became the party of the free-market stocks-and-shares men? Never count it out, warns KEITH FLETT

DURING the summer recess, the Tories have run a series of weekly campaigns on issues like asylum-seekers and crime — all have ended up causing at least as many problems for the Tories as they have for the opposition.

The Tories remain around 20 per cent behind Labour in the polls and are badly split.

Nadine Dorries’s resignation letter to Rishi Sunak was partly farcical, but partly sharp in pointing to numerous Tory policy failures.

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