Focus group of people living in Tory constituency suggests party’s electoral recovery has not emerged
, while the working class received no gains.
Hunt’s expansion of free childcare, thought to be one of the postive aspects of his budget, appeared to come across as deceptive to voters in South Swindon. Michelle, a 53-year-old health administrative worker who joined the diverse focus group convened by More in Common UK for the Guardian, questioned whether thereJackie, a 52-year-old accountant, added: “Nurseries have struggled through Covid, nobody went to nursery so they closed down.
The focus group appeared certain they were not going to back the Conservative “people-pleasers” who use red-meat policies, like the illegal immigration bill, to garner headlines. But the group could not determine if they were willing to wholly support Labour, which they felt had a historic “people-pleasing” strategy of “throwing cash at people”.
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