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Labour has been outflanked on the Left by the Lib Dems, who have pledged an additional £27 billion in spending for health and public services, funded by a rise in CGT and various levies.
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The Week Uk, theweek, 29 June 2024
Sunak is especially vulnerable to the success of the Reform Party – a right-wing group attempting to outflank him on immigration – and the Liberal Democrats, a centrist, pro-European group who have chipped away at Conservative support in affluent, southern parts of England.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 23 May 2024
Listen to this article Democrat Tom Suozzi is focusing on the crisis at the southern border in an unusual effort to outflank Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip in their Feb. 13 special election battle for the Long Island congressional seat previously held by disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
The United States should also try to outflank its rivals by thinking strategically about where revisionists could mobilize support for an alternative and more illiberal international order in the future.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
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The Week Uk, theweek, 29 June 2024
Sunak is especially vulnerable to the success of the Reform Party – a right-wing group attempting to outflank him on immigration – and the Liberal Democrats, a centrist, pro-European group who have chipped away at Conservative support in affluent, southern parts of England.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 23 May 2024
Listen to this article Democrat Tom Suozzi is focusing on the crisis at the southern border in an unusual effort to outflank Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip in their Feb. 13 special election battle for the Long Island congressional seat previously held by disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
The United States should also try to outflank its rivals by thinking strategically about where revisionists could mobilize support for an alternative and more illiberal international order in the future.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
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