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Here is a summary of the main points from Dominic Raab’s interviews this morning.
I think we draw a line in the sand after this vote, it was clearly and decisively won.
There’s a huge amount, when you look at our policy agenda that binds us together, that’s the way it is in the Conservative party.
And I think the best forward – momentum – will be to focus on that, because that’s the stuff that the people in the country, from the towns to the shires and the suburbs and everywhere in between, want us focused on.
We won the biggest majority since 1987 in 2019, and that’s very different from, for example, the situation Theresa May found herself in because there was a hung parliament.
By-elections are often an opportunity for a protest vote in a way that a general election isn’t. Governments of the day often lose by-elections to go on to win them at a general election.
This is a government that delivers on what the people of this country care about most.
We have pledged £37bn to support households with their finances, made our communities safer through hiring 13,500 more police officers, and tackled the Covid backlogs in the NHS by opening nearly 100 community diagnostic centres so people can access care closer to home.
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