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Tories insist Rishi Sunak has ‘steep and narrow’ path to victory despite lagging in polls

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Rishi Sunak will have to scale a “steep and narrow path” to pull off a General Election victory this year, says a senior Tory official.

Alan Mabbutt, the Conservatives’ registered treasurer and legal officer, told party supporters that the election campaign would be “one of the hardest our party has ever fought”.

The election is expected to take place in the autumn after what will effectively be a gruelling ten-month campaign.

By then, party chiefs.

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