Stoke focus group offers hint that Boris Johnson’s Brexit strategy is working

In a cramped motel meeting room just off the M6, voters are talking about politics. They don’t know it as they chat but their grouping has been carefully chosen.

Demographically each would be characterised as working class. All of them voted Labour in the 2015 general election but some have subsequently switched to either the Tories or the Brexit Party. All have said that they’re not certain which way they will vote now.

The location has also been selected deliberately. Stoke-on-Trent North has a Labour majority of 2,300 but in the 2016 EU referendum almost 70 per cent of the constituency voted Leave.

It is a seat — and these are the voters — that Boris Johnson must win if he is to offset the constituencies his party is expected to lose in more prosperous Remain areas.

It is the same group Jeremy Corbyn must convince to back Labour if he is to have any chance of replacing Mr Johnson in No 10.


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/stoke-focus-group-offers-hint-that-boris-johnsons-brexit-strategy-is-working-6sx652qgg


I think Labour is completely out of touch with the working class and now centers on those who are middle class socialists