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A Conservative MP has become the 58th to announce that they will stand down at the next election as the party draws closer to its 1997 record for Commons resignations.
History repeats itself, said Marx, first as tragedy then as farce. We are well into the farce stage with the Conservative Party.
It is not hard to find political parallels between today and the run-up to the 1997 general election: a beleaguered prime minister, a disunited governing party, a confident and disciplined opposition.
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