The latest goal: to make sure the Democrats themselves don't become a small caravan, reduced to a minority in the House and maybe even the Senate.

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Michael: I can't get out mate, I'm stuck in the back because there's the caravan at the side of the house and there's smoke all downstairs.

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"Just this week we have been hearing that all caravan parks in the West Country are on flood alert, and this simply isn't the case, " she said.

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He agreed that Mr Coats had told him that "by way of recompense" Ms Spence said he was to take the caravan in Fife but there was a problem with the landowner and "it couldn't be done".

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