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Article: Crewe rout a Tory breakthrough; POLITICS.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 24, 2008
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Byline: By Alex Young
Don't panic. That was the message from Labour's high command to its worried MPs after the Conservatives' stunning by-election success in Crewe and Nantwich.
While admitting it had been a "bad night" for Labour, Harriet Harman, the party's deputy leader, insisted that Gordon Brown still had time to turn things round before a General Election which could be two years away.
But while ministers were yesterday trying to blame their defeat on voters' worries about the economy, particularly rising food and fuel prices and the ...