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Thanks for all the comments on this. Too many to respond to individually so here's another (shorter) THREADhttps://twitter.com/GavinBarwell/status/1390549774986788864 Yes of course the vaccine rollout is a factor in Conservative success

Today's Conservative Party believes in relatively high spending and relatively high taxes. That makes it a much harder opponent for Labour, just as New Labour was a much harder opponent

Many Labour MPs put all the blame for their 2019 defeat on Jeremy Corbyn. He was certainly a big factor but this narrative obscures the huge underlying challenges Labour faces.

True and an important point that some ignore - but it also removed security infrastructure at the border. Its genius was getting people to accept the status quo unless and

This poll shows government has a huge job to do communicating that while lockdown was vital it's also very damaging economically and we need - slowly + carefully - to