Around a quarter of Leave voters now back Labour, up from 14% in Britain’s 2019 election
once held a busy fishing fleet. Today the only sign of life is aboard four berthed cutters of the Border Force, whose task is to intercept migrants from dinghies in the English Channel and bring them to shore. As a fifth arrives, an elderly angler leans over the harbour wall. “Get back out there”, he bellows, pointing to sea, “and do some work!”
Grey, Eurosceptic and itching to give Westminster a bloody nose, furious voters in blustery towns along England’s east coast have been chronicled so often that they are a political cliché. Anger at immigration and at austerity drove them first into the arms of Nigel Farage’sIndependence Party , then its successor, the Brexit Party, and then its imitator in Boris Johnson’s Conservatives.
Labour’s victory on Thanet Council, the district that contains Ramsgate, was especially striking. Mr Farage ran for Parliament here in 2005 and again in 2015, finishing second. In 2015took control of the council, the first and last it would run.
The decision of Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, to make winning back older social conservatives his central objective is bearing fruit. That meant repudiating Jeremy Corbyn, his predecessor, dumping Europhilia and taking a hard line on criminal justice. “You have to overcorrect constantly for the fact that everyone sitting around the table in any Labour Party meeting is going to be from the cities, university educated and Remain-inclined,” says one party official.
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