The political world is turning upside down, with Conservatives winning more blue-collar votes and Labour seducing the middle classes. John Rentoul tracks what he calls the Great Class Inversion
Hod father: Boris Johnson, an unlikely leader of the working classdidn’t believe it at first. It has taken a long time to absorb and understand it. It seems so contrary to everything we have always known about politics in Britain that it requires a big adjustment of our world view. The link between class and voting has been reversed. People are now more likely to vote Tory if they areIt was not until the elections last week that this fact suddenly became a staple of political analysis.
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