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UK prime minister Boris Johnson. 'The more likely a Johnson victory in a general election, the bigger the incentive for the rebel parliamentary majority to deprive the prime minister of it' (Photo: Council of the European Union)

UK MPs' maths means election, not no-deal Brexit

Having lost the by-election in the previously-safe Conservative Welsh seat of Brecon and Radnorshire, the Remain coalition of Liberal Democrats, Greens and the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru has demonstrated that Conservative seats – even in Leave-leaning constituencies – can be won, as the 'Boris bounce' fails to annihilate the Brexit Party, and the weakness of the Labour party fuels a Liberal surge.

With a majority of just one ...

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Tobias Gras is a senior policy advisor at the Danish Agriculture and Food Council in Brussels. These views are his own.

UK prime minister Boris Johnson. 'The more likely a Johnson victory in a general election, the bigger the incentive for the rebel parliamentary majority to deprive the prime minister of it' (Photo: Council of the European Union)

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Tobias Gras is a senior policy advisor at the Danish Agriculture and Food Council in Brussels. These views are his own.

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