The Tories don’t understand the new working class
The Red Wall voters who backed the Tories in 2019 were driven by economic concerns, not cultural conservatism.
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Claire Ainsley
Claire Ainsley is Director of the Centre-Left Renewal project of the Progressive Policy Institute and was Labour’s Executive Director of Policy 2020-22.
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