"As the night wore on, it became clearer this was not just a simple Tories-out, Labour-in story. The more we look in detail, the more this seems like the night of the great insurgency – a multi-sided protest and revolt against politics as usual. The British public was sending the political class, Labour included, a message which could be summed up as: we, not you, are the masters now, and for a very long time to come."
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Following the 2024 general election held on the previous day. In his last sentence, Marr is referring to a statement by Labour minister Hartley Shawcross in April 1946 ("We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment but for a very long time to come") which was commonly reduced to "we are the masters now".
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