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Many people do keep saying this (a shift in public opinion) but I'm not sure it's true. I think that view is why the electorate are cleaving into divides - because those on the left think that people have shifted to the left, but yet there don't seem to be enough people doing so to actually make a majority.
People like me (and a great number of people I know) haven't shifted more to the left. We've just become more polarised and those on the left (and right) are each shouting louder...
^ an accusation you could level at those at the centre as much as the left of the party.