Reeves Can’t Rebuild the Red Wall

Reeves can’t rebuild the Red Wall

The post-Brexit Leave coalition, as summarised by Dominic Cummings, was always an awkward, unsteady alliance between golf club Tories in the affluent home counties, and a new crowd of working-class, former Labour voters in more deprived, post-industrial seats. The latter would be kept on board with a simple approach: “Build shit in the North”, as Cummings told reporters. Half a decade on, Rachel Reeves has adopted a similar plan. Labour’s traditi