You Ask Us: Will there be another “Portillo moment” – and could rural England vote Labour?
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
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The Lib Dem's Strength in Rural England
I think you have to remember actually, and I think we often forget this when we think about rural England. A lot of these places are ex-industrial. Some of the places that I was going around in Northeast Somerset are ex-mining town,. There's a real Labour heritage there. Yeah, I was also going to say that there are also groups of rural voters that are always going to have a dislike for class politics. And who would probably find a more comfortable vote in Lib Dem. We are not actually doing article about what colour Lib Dem's actually out. This was a long time ago when there was far less editorial control over the estate. That is why we use states for this
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