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You worked very hard for the people of Edo State and they have reciprocated by coming out in droves, not only to cast their votes for you, but also to defend their votes and ensure that the multitude of election riggers mobilized by agents of doom, from different states, to steal the Edo election were made ineffective.”. But there is one that fits the strange mood of now, The trope of ‘her indoors’ is alive and well. Is Covid deepening England's north-south divide? Emma Briant, an academic at Bard College, New York, who specialises in investigating propaganda and has had access to some of the documents for research, said that what had been revealed was “the tip of the iceberg”. Battle for the suburbs: can Joe Biden flip Texas? The party spent £4,471,937 on marketing and canvassing, and £3,011,665 on advertising. Boris Johnson returned as PM with all constituencies declared, Losing MPs face brutal exit from Westminster. Can Labour rebuild its red wall without losing its cities? 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The party also spent £458,688 on Twitter graphics and videos from the New Zealand-based PR firm Topham Guerin, which controversially rebranded the Conservatives’ Twitter account as FactCheckUK during the leaders’ debate last November. Why did Golden Dawn's neo-Nazi leaders get away with it for so long? The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015. Something radical needs to be done about it, and fast.”. I therefore join all citizens of goodwill to congratulate the people of Edo State on the successful and peaceful conclusion of the gubernatorial election, which was held on Saturday September 19, 2020. Is that fair?

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