Jonathan Hopkin
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Professor of Comparative Politics, LSE European Institute. Personal views/futile rants on politics and the economy, and @hullcity
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Wondering why things are falling apart? There's a book for that.
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In which we learn that Princeton was fine graduating a student who took part in the January 6 assault on Congress but will expel a finishing PhD student for sitting on the grass.
The
@princetonian
student editorial board on the University's "unprecedented" decision to remove Gaza protest encampments, while arresting and expelling student protestors.
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This kind of thing is going to teach these students more about power than four years of political science could ever do
UPDATE: “Anyone on the lawn in the next 5 minutes will be arrested. You are still on Yale University property.”
Police Chief Anthony Campbell has instructed Yale students that unless they express political agreement with him, protestors have restricted access to campus
“SHAME!”
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Step One: force students to take on huge debts to go to university
Step Two: wreck the economy so that wages remain stagnant for a decade
Step Three: blame universities for students not getting well paid jobs and being saddled with huge debts
Just the Prime Minister attempting to destroy the University sector for no better reason than class prejudice
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This morning’s timeline is definitive proof that for many Corbyn supporters, defeating the Conservatives comes a long way behind the real priority which is defeating Keir Starmer
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I’ve now watched this 10 minute speech twice, and I can still barely believe my ears. You could write a PhD thesis on it, and I wish someone would. It takes literally 7 minutes to express any view on the killing of civilians in Gaza, and even then does little more than grudgingly
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Don’t want to attribute too much sophistication to these guys, but there is something quite strategic going on here. It’s all about taking a long established symbol of unqualified evil - Nazism and the Shoah - and displacing it onto Muslims (and by extension migrants in general)
‘What Makes Hamas Worse Than the Nazis.’ A very important piece by leading British historian and peer Andrew Roberts.
@aroberts_andrew
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30 years as an academic in the Uk and I honestly never thought I’d see the day the minister in charge of research tells research bodies to boycott individual academics for their political views.
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I can report that my first time voting daughter says that all of her friends will vote Labour, and when pressed if any would vote Conservative, replied that 'Tory' is only used as an insult, or as an adjective to describe abject behaviour 'like throwing up at a party'
Sir John Curtice says Labour "are no longer a party of the working class [but] a party of young people.”
Apologies to the professor-knight, but this formulation of class is, if you want to use the Latin term, a load of fraff.
Me for The Guardian 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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OK, so let's just fact check this a little shall we? EU membership is a cause of Britain's low wage low productivity equilibrium, and curtailing EU migration will improve both, according to the PM.
Boris Johnson offers a period of adjustment. “When people voted for change in 2016 & when people voted for change in 2019, they voted for the end of a broken model of the UK economy that relied on low wages & low skills and chronic low productivity. We're moving away from that.”
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When kids are desperate for university places, and universities are desperate for students, it takes a government of rare ineptitude to end up damaging both.
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In sum, there is absolutely no reason to believe that being in the EU reduces wages or productivity. Leaving the EU, on its own, will do nothing to solve the problem. The policies needed were available to us inside the EU, they do not magically come about just because we left.
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But of course elections don’t matter, New Labour were just Tories, blablabla
And here’s that chart - showing the change in real terms per pupil funding for state and private schools
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This is a neat example of how conservatism works rhetorically. When loans for tuition were first introduced it was a way of graduates paying a little back in return for the higher earnings they were expected to enjoy. Then it became paying quite a lot back. Then…
According to ONS 73% of undergraduates who started last year were not expected to repay their government loan in full - the idea this is some "free market" is nonsense - govt props whole thing up
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literally nothing, in the whole 9 minutes 40 seconds, about the rabid racist and at times openly genocidal language of the Israeli right. It shows contempt for the views of Muslims in Germany, whilst showing close to zero empathy with a defenceless population currently being
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Silvio Berlusconi now literally looks like someone wearing a Silvio Berlusconi mask.
🎄 Auguro a voi e alle vostre famiglie di trascorrere momenti felici e di realizzare nel prossimo anno i progetti e i sogni che ciascuno porta nella mente e nel cuore.
Buone Feste! 🎁
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crushed by the country with the strongest military in the whole region. It shows how easily you can tie yourself in moral knots and not see the reality around you. This is a crass perversion of Germany’s admirable commitment to preserving the memory of the horror of Nazism.
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concede that ‘every dead child is a dead child too many’. It insists that to ‘relativise’ the suffering of Israelis is an outrage and practically in the same breath relativises the suffering of Palestinians. It equates the Palestinian cause almost entirely with Hamas, yet says
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This is insane
This piece by Anahid Neressian, a poetry critic, on the horrors of Gaza, the death of Rafaat Al Areer, and the violence inflicted by IDF soldiers and Proud Boys on UCLA students is just...
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while at the same time freeing European fascism from this burdensome historical association with genocide. This allows us to rehabilitate fascism as a defence against the ‘real Nazis’ - jihadis, or indeed anyone threatening a global order based on white supremacy
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Moreover the current government shows no signs at all of having understood why Britain has lower wages and productivity. And that's to be charitable. There are many reasons for thinking they are actively opposed to the kinds of policies that would improve things. FIN.
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The Catalan election campaign is basically like Brexit but with nicer weather.
📺
#conseller
@joseprull
: "El procés no afecta l'economia catalana, hem vist dades de creixement espectaculars. Som la segona regió d'Europa amb més inversió productiva. El que genera convulsió són les imatges de l'
#1Oct
i que s'hagi convidat a marxar empreses"
#17DebatL6
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This country is going through all kinds of intellectual contortions just to avoid the really obvious conclusion, that being in the EU and raising about 40-45% of GDP in tax is what you need for a fair and prosperous society
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So what does the data tell us about productivity? It tells us that apart from the US, all the major economies in the OECD with higher productivity than Britain are *in the EU* (or have deep trade agreements with it)
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Jeez it’s easy to forget just how open the racism was as recently as 1987
1987: How The Sun reacted to acclaimed poet Benjamin Zephaniah applying to be a visiting fellow at Cambridge
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Key to understanding the French election, and current politics in the West more broadly, is that binary left/right is no longer the most useful way of framing political conflict
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Sweden, Germany and France, all EU countries with freedom of movement of EU labour, have higher productivity than the UK. Sweden and Germany have a higher foreign-born population than the UK...
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It’s astonishing that we’re having to fight these battles again. It’s astonishing that the supposed supporters of Israel are now openly adopting the kind of revisionism that until yesterday was rightly identified as antisemitism
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It’s really simple. We don’t want to be in the EU, and we don’t want to leave the EU. Why is that so hard to understand?
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The WASPI campaign is fascinating for what it reveals about our ideas of social justice and the responsibility of government for our wellbeing. It shows a confused mix of justifications for spending on the older population which mangle distinct conceptions of the welfare state
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After a month of travelling around Spain and Italy I can confidently state that the UK is about two decades behind when it comes to transport policy
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@joeganderson
Very hard to escape the suspicion that it’s all about obscuring UK having off the scale Covid compared to any similar country in Europe.
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Why didn’t they tidy up while they were being dragged away by police
Aftermath of a Palestine protest from The Party of the Environmentalists
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Curious that New Zealand is bucking the populist trend affecting much of the English-speaking world, and nobody thinks that might have something to do with adopting Proportional Representation back in the 90s.
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Extraordinary - Catalan nationalists moaning about the low-paid Latin American care workers who look after their old folk having the temerity to speak Spanish. If only they could listen to themselves.
Residència CAT interior. Observo converses entre dones molt grans catalanoparlants
i cuidadores castellanoparlants. L'esforç patètic i gairebé agònic d'alguna aquestes àvies x expressar-se en castellà és angoixant. Som incapaços d'exigir q nostres àvies puguin morir-se en català?
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@willbott4
Tomatoes are not traditional in carbonara in the way a pork chop is not traditional in fish pie.
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Coda: you can learn much more about all this at the
@LSEEI
- we have a whole Masters degree about it
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@glyndaviesmp
whenever a Brexit MP says something annoying, I cheer myself by googling their expenses
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Finally, anyone publishing this disgraceful ahistorical bulls*** should be ashamed. In some countries it would be borderline criminal - my guess is Roberts won’t be visiting Austria soon.
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You’re now in a market, they said. Compete at a global level, they said. Diversify your funding streams so you’re not so dependent on the state, they said.
NO, NOT LIKE THAT, they now say
My middle son is hoping to study economics at uni from September - this makes my blood boil: Cashfor courses: top universities recruit foreign students on low grades
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Oxford is an excellent university, but not the only one in the UK. What this remarkable pattern tells you is that British elites are co-opted within a relatively closed network, with talents from elsewhere systematically excluded. Any wonder we are in such steep decline?
University Education of UK PMs since the war.
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…it became paying the full amount! Since when has education supposed to be free of government support, based on market forces and individual choice? Nowhere in the world, not even the US, runs its education this way. The Tories themselves don’t even believe it…
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Says the man who met his own wife while studying abroad. What a ****
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.
In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
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‘The only democracy in the Middle East’
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Having spent 30 years observing the political career of Silvio Berlusconi I can confidently predict Trump will survive this and probably benefit from it
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Pedro Sanchez could have formed a left coalition like in Portugal, but instead forced another election in which he lost a million votes whilst the far right gained a million. Idiotic.
CRÓNICA | 'Pedro Sánchez entra con fuerza en el santoral ultraderechista' Escribe
@Guerraeterna
sobre las
#eleccionesgenerales10N
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@JamesERothwell
Mind you, it's fair enough to take the most charitable interpretation of his words, given how he is so polite usually.
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After the latest round of 'Keir Starmer says something disappointing' here's a reminder that the role of the leader of the opposition isn't to stroke the egos of highly politicized left-wingers (of which I am one), but to win power and change the world.
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I see George Osborne is trending. The austerity policies he introduced in the first half of the 2010s likely caused many more premature deaths than Covid19.
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Last time anything like this happened it was to protest the Vietnam war. Anyone prepared to say the students were wrong that time?
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As well as complaining about costs, they endlessly complain about the content of what universities deliver. Isn’t the market supposed to decide that? In fact in part it does: UK HE has been *too* good at competing in the global education market and they object to that too! 🤦🧐
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I wrote some (rather personal) notes about financialization of UK universities for the
#UCUStrikes
Teachout yesterday at LSE. Here they are:
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Farage slams ‘insulting’ choice of Verhofstadt as Brexit boss bit like complaining about yr spouse's divorce lawyer
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@primalpoly
No, but we are invited to say so if we think the proposal is complete made-up nonsense, like your tweet.
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This building just blows me away every time I see it. The idea something this elaborate could have been built nearly two millennia ago, it's beyond comprehension.
#roma
Built in Rome in the 2nd century AD. The Pantheon is still the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world.
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So I'm so busy worrying about the Rona that I keep forgetting to promote my book. It's now out in the United States and available for pre-order in the UK! And you can also get it on Kindle.
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My new book with
@OUPAcademic
is out! At least in Kindle version.
Paper copy out in April (US) and June (UK)
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Oh God we’re going to have to explain proportional representation and coalitions again aren’t we
BREAKING: Far-right leader Geert Wilders has won the Dutch election, according to exit poll.
🔗
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@KateHoeyMP
@GibraltarGov
You just did sell out Gibraltar. They all voted to stay, and you’ve voted to trap them on the Rock with a hard border.
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So I started to read the Race Commission report. It’s pretty grim. Already in the introduction it implies that minority groups should be doing more themselves to take the opportunities available to them. Yet also cites the needs of the white working class (who presumably can’t).
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I'd like to propose the following
STAY AT HOME
IGNORE THE GOVERNMENT
SAVE LIVES
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@NeilDotObrien
@timleunig
The report this is based on also suggests women get negative returns from technology and economics degrees, so I think you need to wonder about the conclusions you're drawing here
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If you’d asked me to choose the worst possible result for the Conservative government I’d have chosen exactly this
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If you look into who financed the Brexit campaign, there are trails leading to criminal regimes and their facilitators in money-laundering centres around the world - Russia and Belize in particular. The Brexit-supporting press is owned by a motley mix of offshore wealth-holders.
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If you look at the war in Gaza, the far right vote in the Netherlands, the rumbling of Trump’s increasingly probable return to power, the rabid language of some British politicians, the far right demonstrations against the parliamentary majority in Spain, the riot in Dublin …
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All those who see the Catalan independence movement as some kind of progressive force should really pay more attention.
Dale un pez a un hombre y comerá un día.
Dale una caña para que pueda pescar y te dirá "malditos catalanes insolidarios dónde están mis peces"
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The good news is that academics in the humanities are getting fired, says The Economist
Many leave university loaded with debt and equipped with a degree of peripheral relevance that has been taught badly. They are being ripped off, not prepared for a better life
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Given I got a bit of an audience on this one, just a final point. If Brexit was not all about improving the wages of low paid British citizens, what was is it all about? My suspicion is that a lot of it is about this kind of thing
A massive trove of private financial records shared with The Washington Post exposes vast reaches of the secretive offshore system used to hide billions of dollars from tax authorities, creditors, criminal investigators and citizens around the world.
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That uneasy feeling when you realise that one of the key backstops of American democracy is Rupert Murdoch
Even Hannity seems bewildered by Giuliani's insane conspiracy theory about how the election fraud that took down Trump was purportedly orchestrated from Frankfurt, Germany
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In a sense hardly surprising given the Trump example, but the Conservatives have given up even pretending to believe in democracy
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This just got personal (as if it wasn't already). My entire adult life, on every level, has been shaped by the
@EuropeanUni
. My daughter exists because of the
@europeanuni
, my professional career would have been inconceivable without it. This is just wanton vandalism.
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So as we are poised to overtake Italy to become the country with most deaths in Europe, second only to the US in the world, it's time to remind ourselves of the reason: British insularity and complacency
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The fact that more people seem to be worried about grade inflation than about what students have actually learned tells you a lot about why English education policy is in this state
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Supposedly left-wing Spanish academic mocking the vote decisions of poorer citizens with lower educational attainment. Viva la revolución.
Los más antiindependentistas, los analfabetos, seguidos de los que no tienen estudios, etc... Cada cual saque sus conclusiones
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It’s here! Finally have my copy of Diminishing Returns with
@luciobaccaro
@MkBlyth
Jonas Pontusson and many others. Great project on
#growth
models and stagnation likely to define comparative political economy for the next few years
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Trending on Twitter - Boris Johnson and Novak Djokovic. The common thread is, they did the wrong thing because they felt like they could. We all have to pretend there is something else to say, but that's all there is to it. Power and impunity.
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For some reason,
@MazzucatoM
triggers an ample number of Italian male economists who should be keeping an eye on their blood pressure
A sinistra la realtà ( )
A destra i "liberali" di Pavlov
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@dandekadt
How Europeans built welfare states that solved poverty without using RCTs is a historical puzzle someone should be writing a PhD on
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The UK university system is in a state of collapse folks. And the worst thing about it is that it’s not even because of austerity. Billions of new cash flowed into it over the past decade, and the shiny new buildings aside, everything has got worse, both for students and staff
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Just when I think I've emptied my personal outrage tank, something comes along to replenish it. Israel is simply annihilating the fabric of Gazan society. The idea that anything healthy can grow out of this is ludricrous. That we are incapable of acting to stop it is humiliating.
BREAKING: Today, we witness the total ISraeli destruction of the most important, 700 beds specialty hospital in Gaza, Al Shifa Medical Complex. It was established 78 years ago during the British Mandate, the name Shifa meaning 'The House of Healing'; now turned into a 'House of
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If you want to know what's really behind a political movement it's always best to ignore the glossy promotional materials and follow the money. Not always easy, but ignore the tabloids and follow people like
@openDemocracyUK
or
@TaxJusticeNet
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@naciodigital
@Albert_Rivera
@toniroldanm
@jserracarne
No es así. Solo hay un programa de Doctorado (Mphil/PhD) que es en el que Toni ha estado registrado los últimos seis años. En Julio, presentó su tesis de Mphil (yo estuve en el tribunal). Puede que no aparezca como inscrito porque ya ha presentado su Mphil thesis.
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@UKRI_News
This sends a very clear signal that in the event of government political pressure on researchers, you have not got our back.
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One of the paradoxes of British politics is how a country with such hostility to welfare spending and such an obsession with private home ownership can carrying on spending far more on social housing than any other advanced democracy
£10 billion would buy all 42,000 homes in Rishi Sunak's constituency of Richmond.
The Government spends twice that amount on housing benefit each year - around half to private landlords.
And we argue Govt should spend even more on HB.. At least in the short term. ⬇️
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I think political science needs to figure out how a government can cause the deaths of 10s of thousands of voters and not suffer any loss in popularity
New
Conservative 44% (+1)
Labour 38% (-)
LibDem 7% (-1)
Green 4% (-)
Redfield Wilton June 25
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