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Totally!
Negative attitudes to immigration have dropped significantly now that stirring up negative sentiments during Brexit has ended and it turns out that, oh no, maybe it wasn't the immigrants?
But I do wonder if the anti immigrant card is still going to work is ran the way it was during leave... (anti muslim bigotry / themmuns are stealing the houses and jobs...) or if lessons are learned for this generation.
I mean, not feeling much love from Labour either, has it all really gone, or if Labour will push for more rights during campaigning it all kicks off again?
JWestland
This ^^
Tories repeatedly tried to neutralise UKIP by adopting its language and positioning but ended up getting UKIPd. Especially once Johnson culled the anti-brexit tories.
It's a lesson for Labour: You can't try to appease anti-foreign sentiment (either anti-EU or anti-immigration) and hoping it will go away as you just end up feeding it.