THE GUARDIAN: Halfway through this campaign, the Tories’ lead is more fragile than it looks

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We are halfway through the election campaign and the Conservatives lead Labour by roughly 10-12 points. The lessons learned from the 2017 fiasco have been applied, and a more disciplined and focused campaign has produced a lead at half-time which is … exactly the same as the lead Theresa May held at the same point last time. Yet half-time in this race feels very different to the 2017 midpoint. What has changed?