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Will Red Wall voters ditch Boris Johnson at the Wakefield by-election?

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Wakefield

When you were growing up, do you remember feeling that it was a labor arian? Yes, i in the sense that labor were always going to win elections. People used to talk about the socialist republic of south and west yorkshire. It's far less ethnically mixed han say, dewsbury down the road or batley and spen. But yet there is a south asian population,. ats a significant extent is sort hove lumped together in a specific part of town. And so when wakefield changed hands to the tories in the 20 19 general election, Were you surprised, or was that something that you had kind of picked up would be happening over the

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