James Forsyth James Forsyth

Will Labour’s expectations management spin be right again?

Over at Red Box, Sam Coates reports that Labour is already lowering expectations for its performance in Henley, briefing that it will lose its deposit. Now, I’d be tempted to dismiss this as just spin seeing as Labour got 14.7 percent at Henley in the general but Labour’s expectations management predictions have turned out to be rather more accurate than they would have liked recently.

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