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Article: 'This country is fundamentally going in the wrong direction' With four days left until the general election, Michael Howard tells DOMINIC LAWSON, the Editor of The Sunday Telegraph, why he feels that he would have personally let the public down if the Conservatives do not prevail
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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It now appears to be a part of our unwritten constitution that the
editor of The Sunday Telegraph interviews the leader of the
Conservative Party for the last weekend of a general election
campaign.
Both in 1997, with John Major, and in 2001 with William Hague, the
opinion polls were terrifyingly bad. When I asked each of them to
admit that he was, at the least, somewhat depressed by this, I was
told how wrong the pollsters were.
John Major told me: ``I find the opinion polls baffling, they bear
no relationship either to the feel out there, or to our detailed
canvass returns.'' William Hague told me: ``The polls don't match
with what we are finding. The candidates are racing around with ...