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Article: Labour fails the `punter test'.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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Byline: MARTIN SHIPTON
BOOKIES are predicting that Health Minister Jane Hutt will lose her Assembly seat, that Labour will fail to get its longed-for overall majority and that Rhodri Morgan will quit as First Minister.
With three months to go before the second National Assembly elections on May 1, punters are already putting bets on the outcome.
Karl Williams, of Wales's biggest independent bookmakers Jack Brown, has devised odds that suggest the Vale of Glamorgan constituency will be the only one of the 40 first-past-the-post seats to change ...