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Understanding the politics of compromise

Dr Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay in the Birmingham Perspective: "Recent events have not helped Mrs. May. The terrorist attacks have brought the spotlight to her record as Home Secretary and the cuts in police expenditure under her stewardship. Voter perceptions are what wins elections and this has oddly seen a socialist leader with a pacifist ideology at least make a credible claim towards defending the country better."

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