SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Fifty-six year-old Roh Moo-hyun is from the same political party as 77 year-old outgoing president Kim Dae-jung.

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By the same token, the odds have improved for Yasuo Fukuda, a grand old party man who belongs to the same faction as Mr Abe.

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Labour's frontbench has seized on the formation of the new Tory group to suggest the "same old" divisions on the issue were resurfacing in the party.

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He attempted to cast the Tories as the people's party while at the same time pushing all the old buttons on core Conservative issues like law and order, defence and patriotism.

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