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Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, has insisted it remains feasible to the Conservative “underdogs” to get the election as he warned a Labour “supermajority” would raise taxes.UKIP, whose political fortunes have declined sharply since Mr Farage stood down as its chief in 2016, has to date shed all of the seats it absolutely was defending