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Cabinet Office minister Gummer loses seat as Tory gamble backfires

Alan Brown Silver badge

"With FPTP it's theoretically possible for a party with say 30% of the vote to govern "

Labour and the Conservatives have been swapping power with barely 35% for decades, so it's not exactly theoretical.

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