A government that's been in power for eight years with an austerity program is naturally going to suffer at elections.

Robert Hayward

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A fall from that level is therefore inevitable at some stage and it will come this year - with force.

Politicians always look at the last set of election results and by definition they're going to look at what happens on May 3 and make a judgment on that, it will have an impact on what has to happen in the budget, 'Do I take a more militant view in relation to the Customs Union, or Brexit, or nurses, or numbers of policemen?'.