My final round of campaign focus groups takes us to three seats in the south west of England with notional five-figure Conservative majorities: St Austell & Newquay (Steve Double), Plymouth Moor View (Johnny Mercer), and North East Somerset and Hanham, whose redrawn boundaries pose a big challenge to Jacob Rees-Mogg. In a region that was once a Liberal Democrat heartland, Labour are now the main challengers to the Tories in all three seats.
If they can monetise it and steal it, they will do
The week’s revelations about betting on the election date dominated recent recollections among our participants, all of whom voted Tory in 2019: “It’s a metaphor for the whole Conservative period in government. If they can monetise it and steal it, they will do, and they did.
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