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Courtesy of Danny Finkelstein:
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The red line shows Labour’s approval rating since 2005, the blue John Major’s 1992-97 ministry. Nuff said. (The bulge was the brief Brown Summer in which, helped by not being Tony Blair and his calm response to terrorism, Brown was for a moment or two actually quite popular.)

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