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Labour have more to fear from Reform than the Tories in England. Immigration is the single biggest issue in English politics and has the biggest negative impact on working class voters in post industrial areas.
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Immigration is the single biggest issue in English politics
Is there a certain nuance to the sentence structure, and/or definitions I'm missing? Or did you actually mean the 4th most important issue after, The cost of living, Health, and The economy in general?
£5 says that if you solved 1 out of the the 3 ahead of it, immigration would fall even further down the list.
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Immigration … has the biggest negative impact on working class voters in post industrial areas.
Citation needed
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I think the economy is still number 1
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I think there is an ideological difference that many Tory MPs would be reluctant to bridge, around the role of the state in the daily lives of the electorate, that means they'd never cross to Labour.
Electorally, most of the 'one nation' Tory MPs are in south eastern constituencies where their main challengers are the LibDems, so joining them gives them a better chance of remaining as an MP after the next election. It's clear now, I think, that with Badenoch and Jenrick as the two remaining candidates, that the Tories are going to go after Reform voters, rather than trying to stop the LibDems from taking more seats off them.