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Chris Mason: Why 2025 promises plenty of political fireworks

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Politics in 2025 will be dominated by a single controlling thought: do things start feeling any better? The answer to that will drive much else in the political conversation.

2024 was a year of spectacular success for Labour , but their landslide general election win already feels like it was ages ago.

And we head into 2025 with quite the assembly of cocktail ingredients - a flatlining economy, an impatient electorate and a volatile world.

The Lib Dems had a corker of a 2024 and Sir Ed Davey now leads a party of 72 MPs.

The challenge for Sir Ed will be converting a much bigger parliamentary party into influence.

The SNP had a dreadful 2024 : nearly nuked in the general election by the rampant return of Labour in Scotland .

Green MPs around Westminster wear plenty of smiles as we head into 2025 .