Battleground Yorkshire: Seaside towns show the limitations of Levelling Up

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Battleground Yorkshire: Seaside towns show the limitations of Levelling Up
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Though the “Red Wall” of constituencies has become a by-word for must-win seats at the next election, things have changed.

Due to the substantial poll lead the Labour has built up, with the Conservatives languishing at its lowest level of support for over 40 years according to some pollsters, most of these marginal seats will almost certainly be swinging back to Labour at the next election. The more important seats when assessing the size of Labour’s presumed majority are those on the coast, which have backed the winning party at every election in the last four decades.

He said that a lot of people locally are either not going to vote, because they can’t bring themselves to vote for Labour, or make the change to Sir Keir Starmer’s party. One retired couple, who have lived in the area for 20 years, said that they would not be voting for the first time in their voting lives. “They’re not giving me anything to vote for. If somebody said that they were helping the young, then I would,” they said. “Everybody that we know doesn’t know who to vote for either.

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