In the immediate aftermath of the recent Local and European Elections, I privately spoke to a senior Government politician, who told me that the atmosphere within his party was that they had received a “great result” and that they were “out of jail”. Those were his exact words.
He said he felt like a dark “cloud” had been hanging over the party, but that it had finally been “lifted”, and the impression he gave was that the party felt like they were now in-the-clear with the voting public after a long period of dread and foreboding.
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