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For 2025, buoyed by confidence in my abilities as a prognosticator, I decided to go for 15 predictions for the year which should probably result in a metaphorical faceplant. Let’s see how I went.
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Who You Gonna Trust?
Both Badenoch and Taylor were senior cabinet ministers in these governments that sold out their core voters. Neither resigned from cabinet on principle. The entire Tory and coalition teams seemed happy to abandon any sense of fight against the left and now look very much like Labour-lite clones.