Indeed, the Conservatives widened their lead in the early weeks of the pandemic in 2020, only to see it shrink to virtually zero in the chaos that followed and then bounce back to around ten points with the vaccine roll-out in the New Year of 2021. [...] The STaTe of Public oPinion: 2023 19 The liberal deMocraTS dr alan wager In the summer of 2019, the Liberal Democrats made the decision to become the ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ party. [...] 38 The STaTe of Public oPinion: 2023 ScoTland Professor rob Johns In the last general election, the SNP took 45% of the Scottish vote and all but eleven of the contested seats. [...] But before the month was out, the EU’s near-triggering of the Article 16 safeguard measures over the circulation of Covid vaccines on the island of Ireland exposed the vulnerabilities of the Protocol. [...] By making the removal of the Protocol a condition of their return, the DUP gave the UK Government reason to claim that the Protocol was undermining the 1998 Belfast Agreement - the very thing it was intended to protect.
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