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Trainees Take on 2020

Published on 27 February 2020. By Charlie Gould, Trainee Solicitor and Elizabeth Zang, Trainee Solicitor and Georgia Durham, Trainee Solicitor and Hannah Ridzuan-Allen, Trainee Solicitor and Matt Davies, Trainee Solicitor and Poppy St John, Trainee Solicitor and Sean Cannon, Trainee Solicitor

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RPC's trainees had mixed fortunes in attempting to predict the major events of 2019. As can be seen from our 2019 predictions blog, Theresa May's departure was correctly predicted, but the trainees were well wide of the mark in forecasting Beto O'Rourke as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for the US Presidency: Beto suspended his campaign on November 1 2019, a full four months before primary season. No one foresaw the UK's first December general election since 1923 either, which is perhaps more forgivable.

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