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1. All the parties were proposing some level of cuts due to the VSP effect outlined in the article. Labour was also promising a degree of austerity. 2. Labour had been in government for 13 years, and Cameron was a. posing as a 'moderate' and b. had massive media support.

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The bigger question mark is 2015, but _that's_ because people's perception of the Tories was "the Tories but with the sharpest edges slightly sanded off by the Lib Dems". 2017 shifted _towards_ Jeremy Corbyn, 2019 was Get Brexit [Over And] Done [With] and Corbyn having reputational collapse.

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