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Can you spot the person and party in this local newspaper report who:

(a) Slipped back to fourth place for the first time
(b) Saw their vote fall
(c) But say they are “pleased” with the result? and hope to “ride the momentum” into next year’s local elections [Updated: as highlighted by a comment below, the newspaper's use of paragraph breaks looks to have presented the last part of the quote from someone else as if it were the start of Richard Merrin's comments.]

(Here’s a clue: his name is Richard Merrin; his political party is the Conservatives.)

And for a final …