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  1. 2027: Ciaran O'Brien of bookmaker Ladbrokes says the one outcome that is certain from the election is that "punters won". The firm is paying out £5m to people who had a flutter on a hung parliament, while a Green victory in Brighton was heavily backed. Overall, they made a loss on election bets, Mr O'Brien adds.
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  1. 2036: Former Tory cabinet minister Michael Portillo tells Radio 4's Any Questions that the public would be puzzled as to why the prime minister - his party having finished second in a general election - should still think he should remain in office. Associate editor of the Times, Daniel Finkelstein, adds that while Harold Wilson was the only prime minister to have been elected four times, Mr Brown would be first to be unelected twice.
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