It took years for Labour to wake up to its loss of red wall support. The work to repair relations over Gaza should start today
The Workers party for Britain’s vote share in Birmingham Hodge Hill was very close to Labour’s in the constituency.The Workers party for Britain’s vote share in Birmingham Hodge Hill was very close to Labour’s in the constituency.
Yet if commentators, pollsters and senior Labour figures had convinced themselves that Rochdale was a one-off, the results of the 2024 general election show how wrong they were. In several other seats, high-profile Labour MPs were also run close by independent candidates, including Jess Phillips in Birmingham Yardley.
Lib Dem sources at the count, in a large Pentecostal church on the edge of Burnley, said they had been hamstrung by a lack of support from party headquarters, who had – they said – diverted their small and ageing band of activists from Burnley to Hazel Grove, near Stockport, which they took from the Tories.
Again, the conflict in the Middle East is not the concern of one demographic alone. But it is striking how closely the Muslim community’s desertion of Labour resembles the collapse across the “red wall”.
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