The Tory death spiral
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Less than a century ago, Birmingham was a Tory fiefdom. As the annual party conference draws to an end in the city, the true-blue Brum of the Thirties seems like an exotic historical curiosity too bizarre to process. The city now has just a single Conservative MP, and that is in the well-heeled suburb of Sutton Coldfield. The Tory domination here — a legacy of the extraordinary hold that the Chamberlains exercised over the city,…
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