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Article: Dilemma for Cameron; Column.(Features)
- Article from:
- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- May 31, 2008
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Byline: PAUL LINFORD
OF all the many political truisms that get trotted out from time to time, one of the most oft-heard but possibly most misleading is the one that says Oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them.
It is true there has been the odd election where that has been the case but, by and large, it is bunkum.
In the last election, in 2005, for instance, an unpopular and discredited Labour government was grudgingly returned to office not on its own merits but for fear of what a Michael Howard-led administration might do.