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Opinion: U.K. byelection offers lesson for Canadian Conservatives


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Something important happened in England recently. Alongside local elections, there was a byelection in the constituency of Hartlepool on England’s northeast coast. Hartlepool has sent a Labour MP to Westminster for the last half century, but on May 6, Conservative Jill Mortimer was elected by a significant majority. The Hartlepool result matters not just because incumbent governments are so rarely rewarded at the ballot box during byelections, but because of what it says about broader political trends in the United Kingdom.
Canadian Conservatives would be foolish to ignore what has now become a substantive and sustained realignment of the U.K. Conservatives’ voter coalition. In fact, the byelection result, and the results of local elections happening at the same time, represent further confirmation of an increasingly proven theory: the success of the “Leave” side in the Brexit referendum campaign five years ago was not a historic aberration. ....

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