Lord Ashcroft: My latest focus groups - “What worries me is, Starmer and Reeves are the best Labour have got”

Lord Ashcroft: My latest focus groups - “What worries me is, Starmer and Reeves are the best Labour have got”

Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is an international businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. For more information on his work, visit lordashcroft.com  My latest focus groups took place in Norwich North, Waveney Valley, Walsall and West Bromwich, where we heard respectively from Conservative-Labour switchers, Green voters, Tory-Reform switchers and Labour voters potentially interested in an alternative.  Participants of all political persuasions w…

“What worries me is, Starmer and Rachel Reeves are the best Labour have got”: my latest focus groups - Lord Ashcroft Polls

My latest focus groups took place in Norwich North, Waveney Valley, Walsall and West Bromwich, where we heard respectively from Conservative-Labour switchers, Green voters, Tory-Reform switchers and Labour voters potentially interested in an alternative. Participants of all political persuasions were worried about the government’s plan to scrap jury trials for offences carrying sentences up to three years in prison. There was wide acceptance tha…