OPINION - Forget Red-Wallers, one political tribe has been ignored for too long: meet the non-posh Londoner
by Martha Gill
Feb 29, 2024
3 minutes
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Stereotypes can linger even when long debunked. The “Red Wall” is still — to some tired parts of Westminster — a synonym for depleted industrial towns and a “left behind” by politics. But that is only half the story. Those areas of the North and Midlands that flipped Tory in 2019 also contain sleek middle-class suburbs. These seats have a greater share of homeowners, and in them people tend to own cars. In recent years pollsters have started to
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