turf out
Britishverb
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Because since July – when the Conservatives were not just turfed out of office but reduced to their fewest MPs ever – things have only got worse.
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After their verbal attack, Zelensky was unceremoniously turfed out of the White House and not long afterwards Trump ordered the suspension of American military aid and intelligence to Ukraine.
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When Labour were turfed out in 2010, it took them 14 years and three leaders before they won again in July.
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Now, Labour has brought forward a strengthened version of the bill, including an outright ban on tenants being turfed out for no reason by landlords using a Section 21 notice.
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And rather than trying to please all the people all of the time, they chose affluent leafy constituencies where they could try to turf out Tory MPs.
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