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Michael White: Punchbag Lansley knocked out

No need to tell me. I got it wrong. I was confident until last week that Andrew Lansley would stay in post as health secretary until much closer to election day, when he would be sacrificed to the god of public opinion for whatever failings in his health reform blueprint were evident at the time.

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