I’m sorry but I don’t know who is buying this guff “we are going to lose but the numbers say it’s really close, the problem is getting enough activists to come down” is a classic of the by-election genre and is used solely to get more activists down.
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Labour Increasingly Confident Of Beating Zack Polanski In Crunch By-Election
But the Greens say their “confidence is misplaced” as voters in Keir Starmer’s old seat prepare to go to the polls.