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        <title><![CDATA[Chaminda Jayanetti - Freelance Journalist]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Chaminda Jayanetti is a freelance journalist who covers politics and public services]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tories Are Lost Because Their Ideology Failed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The question facing the Conservative party is what to do when its core beliefs turn out to be fantasies.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:00:34 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Leadership candidates for the Conservative Party, Tom Tugendhat, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, and Kemi Badenoch, second left to right, at the UK Conservative Party annual conference in Birmingham, UK, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. The conference runs until Wednesday, Oct. 2.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Labour's Support Is Broad But Shallow]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[That doesn’t matter now, but it may well do in the future.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 04:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>LANCING, ENGLAND - MAY 27: Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks during a campaign appearance on May 27, 2024 in Lancing, England. Labour had shown a persistent lead in national polling as of last week, when a snap general election was called for July 4. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Labour Shouldn’t Write Off the SNP Just Yet]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Despite numerous internal crises and a recent revival of Scottish Labour, Scotland’s pro-independence party still has a strong voice. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 04:00:06 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - MARCH 25: First Minister Humza Yousaf takes part in a dance performance during a visit to DN Studios on March 25, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The First Minister visits a project led by Edinburgh Community Performing Arts to announce new funding for community projects supporting child and adult mental health. The announcement comes in the same week that Mr Yousaf will mark one year as First Minister. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)</media:description>
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