This panicking political retreat, narrowing its ambition and political coalition, will only come back to bite Labour 🖋️ FisherAndrew79 for ipaperviews
in areas where Labour is weak. This is good news for Labour – making it all the more likely Labour emerges as the largest party at the next general election.
It was always going to be a monumental task for the Tories to deflect the focus of a by-election triggered by the scandals and law-breaking of Boris Johnson , with a Government overseeing the longest and deepest fall in living standards since at least the 1950s. All Labour had to do was ask – as Ronald Reagan did in 1980 – “Are you better off?”
So it should have come down to what matters more to you – a Ulez scheme that affects only 1 in 10 drivers , or an unpopular, scandal-ridden Government delivering the worst economic record in your lifetime?a fillip on 4 July coming out against UlezAn important rule of political campaigning is not to legitimise your opponent’s framing.
Reducing that to 495 might seem an okay result, but the swing to Labour was only seven per cent, when national polling suggests it should be at least double that – and on the same night Labour won Selby and Ainsty with a swing of 24 per cent, overturning a 20,000 majority.
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