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What if Gordon Brown had never "bottled it", and held a general election sometime in late 2007/early 2008? Would the Conservatives have gained as significant a majority as they look likely to do in 2010, would they even have won the election at all? How would Gordon Brown's premiership be different by midsummer 2008, assuming all of the other problems it has encountered happened OTL? Alternatively, how do you think a new Tory government under David Cameron would have handled issues like Northern Rock, the dramatic rise in oil prices, and the strikes of this spring/summer?

Any thoughts?
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