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20 October 2023

What are the Tories telling themselves today?

The Conservatives are drawing false comfort from the narrative that they lost because their voters “stayed home”.

By Rachel Cunliffe

If you are a Conservative, licking your wounds after two of the worst by-election defeats in history, what stories are you telling yourself?

The dust has barely settled on the seismic results in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire, but already the narratives are in full swing.

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