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Shadow chancellor says Labour will fight austerity as general election campaign enters its final days
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Q: A good friend says she won't vote because, although she is anti-Conservative, she would feel a hypocrite for voting Green, and Labour are too leftwing for her and she doesn't believe they can afford their manifesto pledges. How can I persuade her? Vicki, Cumbria
You could make the argument - as has Hugh Grant, among many others - that your friend could vote tactically in whatever constituency she lives in so as to have the most chance of preventing a Conservative MP and thus limiting or stopping Boris Johnson's majority. The Lib Dems would probably argue that if she doesn't like the Tories, and the Greens and Labour are too leftwing, she could give them a try.
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Some of your questions so far have been about what happens if a leader of a winning party loses their seat and checks for goods crossing the Irish Sea:
Q: What happens if the leader of the winning party loses their seat as an MP? Marina Nea, housewife, Essex
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