Lord Ashcroft: My Latest Focus Groups - “Taxes Keep Going up and up and up with No Tangible Pay-Off”

Lord Ashcroft: My latest focus groups - “Taxes keep going up and up and up with no tangible pay-off”

Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is an international businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. For more information on his work, visit lordashcroft.com My focus groups this month took place in Sheffield with Labour voters interested in other parties of the left; Bradford, with Labour voters tempted by Reform; Peterborough, with former Tories who switched to Reform in 2024; and Northampton, with former Tories who switched to Labour. Though it has pr…

"Taxes keep going up and up and up with no tangible pay-off": My latest focus groups - Lord Ashcroft Polls

My focus groups this month took place in Sheffield with Labour voters interested in other parties of the left; Bradford, with Labour voters tempted by Reform; Peterborough, with former Tories who switched to Reform in 2024; and Northampton, with former Tories who switched to Labour. Though it has preoccupied Westminster, few in our groups had any grasp of the details of the China spying controversy, and many had not noticed it at all. For those …