sugar-coat

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Both said winter fuel cuts had been a mistake but Phillipson said the party should focus on "the 90% of things it got right" - including family hubs and workers' rights -while Powell said that it wasn't possible to "sugar-coat" big errors, adding that voter disillusionment needed to be addressed.

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If you expect me to sit there and try and sugar-coat things which fans can see, I don't think I should be doing it.

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"I don't want to sugar-coat this, people have been through it," said Nandy.

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"I won't sugar-coat it: it's rough. But I'm hopeful," she said.

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"In the long run, I'm really happy. And this is not me trying to sugar-coat drawing after being 2-0 up, it really isn't. What I'm telling you now I told the players. This was really good."

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