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4 March 2021updated 23 Jul 2021 1:11pm

Is Labour focusing too much on winning over Red Wall voters?

The party is near-united on this strategy: but is this the only way to get back into No 10?

By Ailbhe Rea

We receive so many great questions for the You Ask Us section of the New Statesman podcast that we don’t manage to answer all of them. So we’ve decided to start writing up our answers to some of your questions, beginning with this one sent to us this week:

“Between 2017 and 2019, Labour lost as many voters to the Greens as they did to the Conservatives, and three times the number of either to the Lib Dems. Does it really make sense for quite so much of our politics to be orientated towards 300k voters in the ‘Red Wall’?”

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