In Wrexham, voters are abandoning Labour over Brexit

Former miners and council tenants are just some of the voters flirting with the Tories.

Wrexham has never returned a Conservative MP (Photo By Getty)

The bus station, the McDonald’s, the benches in front of the council offices – these are the places where the spice addicts congregate in Wrexham. When I arrive, at 11 o’clock on a Tuesday morning, a man is keeled over in the driving sleet.

“Drug addiction and homelessness has got worse,” says Mary Wimbury, the Labour PPC for Wrexham. “It is a by-product of austerity and it puts people off coming into the town centre. We have had significant police cuts across North Wales.”