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New Labour Kingswood MP says Conservatives have ‘sucked hope out of country’

Source: PA Wire

New Kingswood MP Damien Egan said 14 years of Conservative government have “sucked the hope out of our country”.

The former mayor of Lewisham in London, who resigned to fight the by-election, overturned a Conservative majority of 11,220, securing 11,176 votes and a majority of 2,501.

He said: “In Kingswood, as across the country, 14 years of Conservative

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