'It is always painful to see brilliant committed councillors and candidates slog their guts out and then lose through no fault of their own, but politics is a cruel business'
Both main parties have been punished for their failure to fulfil their promises to get Britain out of the EU and a variety of ‘none of the above’ protest parties have benefitted.
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