Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie MSP accused the Liberal Democrats of having "turned flip-flopping into an art form".

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Winchester has a large liberal-minded public-sector middle-class: Hampshire County Council, the Winchester School of Art, King Alfred's College, and the genteel types round its ancient cathedral and public school.

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In the 1980s Massachusetts was famous for liberal north-eastern public policies that struck most Americans as utterly crazy, such as buying a modern art sculpture for a prison.

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