A focus group in Hitchen blames Liz Truss for their financial woes, is split on Rishi Sunak and still unsure about Keir Starmer
The bright spot for the government from this focus group was the national service announcement, which it was felt would do young people good.The bright spot for the government from this focus group was the national service announcement, which it was felt would do young people good.
The participants were certainly not natural Labour voters. More than any other group we’ve spoken to this year, they were frustrated at high taxes and in particular the impact of fiscal drag and benefit cutoffs. Matt, an account manager, told us that rules around benefits thresholds and child benefit had “rankled him for years”.
On the current prime minister, the group was more split. Lee, a small business owner, said: “I don’t think it’s necessarily Rishi’s fault. I just feel that he’s taken the reins over what was arguably the worst period of government.” And some pointed to the fact that inflation was now coming down as Sunak had promised.
While the group had strong opinions on the prime minister, the opposite was true of the leader of the opposition. For this group, Keir Starmer was a total unknown quantity. Beth summed up the group’s view, saying: “I don’t know if I think he’ll be a good prime minister. I don’t really know enough” – though they did agree that he was more acceptable than Jeremy Corbyn and that Labour seemed more united than the Tories.
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