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Kevin Maguire: Corbyn needs to start talking to Tories to get to No 10
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Jon Craig: Good luck to my mates, the new special advisers
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David Herdson: The Tories should stand in Jo Cox's seat after all
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James Frayne: Tory eurosceptics now fall into three tribes
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Abi Wilkinson: It's a dangerous game to dismiss Jeremy Corbyn's supporters as Trots
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Ioan Marc Jones: Labour has become a protest movement - against itself
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Steve Richards: Don't expect Theresa to take the primrose path towards an early election
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George Pascoe-Watson: Theresa May bars the door to anyone not helping the 'have-nots'
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In purging Cameroons and Osbornites...