Here's what you find under Labour's 'landslide': doubters, abstainers and independents.
In the third episode of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos travel around the West Midlands, and find a fascinating political mixture: hesitant Labour voters, a new crop of independents focused on Palestine and local cuts – and, amid deep social problems, lots of people who think the election hardly matters. Here, it seems, is the reality that all those opinion polls get nowhere near
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This Labour city backed Brexit and went Tory: what did it get in return? - video ► www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2024/jun/14/this-labour-city-backed-brexit-and-went-tory-what-did-it-get-in-return-video
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