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Jon Cruddas and Chuka Umunna go local on the Tories

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Now is not a good time–politically–to be an incumbent. The economic realities mean that tough choices have to be made: services cut, taxes raised or both. So it is a clever move by Jon Cruddas and Chuka Umunna to set up a website, Tory stories, scrutinising the work of Tory councils.

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