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Britain’ s opposition leader said yesterday he had not lost hope of winning this week’ s election, despite predictions of a ruling Labor landslide, because Judo had taught him that "to the last second you can win. "
    Latest opinion polls made grim reading for William Hague’s conservatives, with forecasts that Prime Minister Tony Blair’ s Labor Party could win Thursday’ s general election by between 12 and 23 percentage points.
    The third major party, the Liberal Democrats, ranged between 15 and 17 per cent.
    Seven of the country’ s nine Sunday newspapers said they endorsed Blair, with only the traditionally conservative Mail and Telegraph remaining loyal to Hague.