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26 August 2026

‘We weren’t going to be lectured’: Howard revisits Tampa, 25 years on

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‘We weren’t going to be lectured’: Howard revisits Tampa, 25 years on

My view is that we’d have won that election without either the political impact of Tampa, or of the 9/11 attacks. But probably our majority would have been a bit smaller. We had a by-election in ...

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