He answered the door to Labour canvassers and said he had just voted Conservative for the first time in his life. Can such voters be turned into enthusiastic Tories? But the party is first going to have win back rather different voters in its lost heartlands. “Things like Britannia Unchained, and those past Conservative plans to remodel the NHS – that’s all off the agenda,” he said. A month on from the election, these things are less about ideological fashion than the inescapable realities of a redrawn political map.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2020 06:00 UTC