Labour: A Party on the Edge in Wales Amid Anger at Drakeford, Morgan and Starmer

Lord Ashcroft: My latest focus groups: "We need someone strong, but he can’t even control his own party”

Our focus group tour this month took us to two destinations in Wales, to hear from longstanding Labour voters in Neath & Swansea East, and from Conservative-Labour switchers in Vale of Glamorgan. We also visited opposite corners of London: former Conservative voters who last year defected to the Lib Dems in Sutton & Cheam or to Reform in Hornchurch & Upminster. The groups discussed Keir Starmer’s record after a year, Iran, Labour’s record in Wal…

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"We need someone strong, but he can't even control his own party": My latest focus groups - Lord Ashcroft Polls

Our focus group tour this month took us to two destinations in Wales, to hear from longstanding Labour voters in Neath & Swansea East, and from Conservative-Labour switchers in Vale of Glamorgan. We also visited opposite corners of London: former Conservative voters who last year defected to the Lib Dems in Sutton & Cheam or to Reform in Hornchurch & Upminster. The groups discussed Keir Starmer’s record after a year, Iran, Labour’s record in Wal…