Brexit is the dominant election issue. The conventional election response of an opposition is to say: vote Labour to keep the Tories out and return a Labour government. The response in this election could be in line with that convention: Brexit is not the only issue, so vote Labour, for example, to save the NHS or stop cuts to schools.
It won’t work.
Hunt was interviewed on Breakfast this morning (and got a harder time than he did on Radio 4's top political programme) and he constantly brought everything back to Brexit and 'strong leadership'. That's all we are going to hear.
I know a lot of people stick their fingers down their throat at the very mention of Tony Blair but I think he's right a lot of the time and especially here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/24/tony-blair-fight-tories-june-election-brexit-labour-eu
Brexit is the dominant election issue. The conventional election response of an opposition is to say: vote Labour to keep the Tories out and return a Labour government. The response in this election could be in line with that convention: Brexit is not the only issue, so vote Labour, for example, to save the NHS or stop cuts to schools.
It won’t work.
Hunt was interviewed on Breakfast this morning (and got a harder time than he did on Radio 4's top political programme) and he constantly brought everything back to Brexit and 'strong leadership'. That's all we are going to hear.