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mwooldri

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1. To me Heseltine losing the Tory whip is big.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2019, 08:19 PM

May 2019

He was a prominent figure in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet, also later part of John Major's cabinet too. That he wants to vote for my party (I view myself as a Lib Dem, was a member until I left for the USA) over the Tories show that the Tories are losing the pro-EU part of their party, with the Lib Dems and Change UK being the likely beneficiaries.

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To me Heseltine losing the Tory whip is big. mwooldri May 2019 #1

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