Will Reform throw a brick in the Tories' red wall?
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The Times
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🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In 2019, Boris Johnson’s Conservatives upended decades’ of traditional voting behaviour, as lifelong Labour seats in the north and midlands fell to the Tories. But with Brexit delivered and Johnson gone, the Tories are being challenged from the right by a resurgent Reform, as Luke Jones heard in Ashfield.
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Guests:
- Peter Kellner, Political Journalist and Pollster;
- Debbie Soloman, Parliamentary Candidate, Conservative and Unionist Party;
- Lee Anderson, Parliamentary Candidate, Reform UK; and
- Rhea Keehn, Parliamentary Candidate, Labour Party.
Also standing in Ashfield are: Jason Zadrozny, Ashfield Independents; Daniel Holmes, Liberal Democrats; Alexander Coates, Green Party.
Host: Luke Jones
Clips: Sky News; Boris Johnson/Facebook.
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| 1:07.0 | There are interesting things afoot in Ashfield, the formerly Red Wall Sea to Nottinghamshire. |
| 1:20.0 | There was a couple of years in the 1970s when the Conservatives won a spectacular |
| 1:24.4 | by action, then lost it in 79. For the next 40 years it was a pretty solid |
| 1:30.0 | safe labor seat. |
| 1:33.0 | Peter Kelner co-founded Polsters U-Gov and has been writing about this kind of area for the Sunday Times. |
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