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Why did the Tory election campaign go wrong?
Theresa May announced the 2017 election calling for a stronger mandate going into Brexit negotiations, three years earlier than required under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
And now she has to rely on a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to survive key votes.
Daily Politics reporter Elizabeth Glinka spoke to ConservativeHome's Mark Wallace about what went wrong for Mrs May.
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