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Why talk of a "supermajority" is bad for Labour.

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Good morning. Little will humble a politician more than spending half an hour taking questions from an unimpressed audience on BBC Question Time – as party leaders did last night. They couldn’t hide behind cheap jibes against their opponents, or reframe a question to make it less challenging.

The resulting spectacle was cagey and subdued. Each can…

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