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Anatomy of an earthquake: how Labour rose and Tory dominoes fell
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The story of a disastrous night for Rishi Sunak’s party and a stunning dawn for Keir Starmer
A mild-mannered man, courteous to the end towards the Labour MP who had just taken his seat in Swindon South, Sir Robert Buckland simply could no longer hold in his anger at what was left of his party.
He was thoroughly fed up with the endless “jockeying for position” and those colleagues who said things they “know to be untrue”. At a little after midnight, the former justice secretary had been the first Conservative MP to lose his seat in the Labour landslide – and he was spitting.
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