PATTRICK SMELLIE: Are Labour voters turning Green?

PATTRICK SMELLIE: Are Labour voters turning Green?
Pattrick Smellie
Three weeks out from polling day, and just five days before the start of early voting, Labour Party strategists might be expected to be feeling pretty confident.Poll after poll – including the two public polls taken this month and a reliable, leaked UMR poll – say the same thing: Labour will form the next government.However, there is such a thing as peaking too early.There is some evidence there is a swing to the Greens occurring amongst Labour voters who think their party’s safe, and who don’t want it to be so safe that...

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