It’s by-election day in Batley and Spen tomorrow. The only constituency polling done in the West Yorkshire seat suggests that the Tories stand a good chance of grabbing it off Labour, with the intervention of George Galloway threatening to turn the seat blue for the first time since 1997.
In recent weeks there has been much commentary on how the Conservative party can balance its delicate electoral coalition between the red wall in the north and the home counties in the south, following the Chesham and Amersham upset. Mr S therefore thought it worthwhile to commission some polling on the attitudes of 2019 Conservative voters towards the government. Conducted by Redfield and Wilton with a sample size of 1,000, the polling took place last Thursday on 24 June – the fifth anniversary of the Brexit result being declared but a day before the Matt Hancock scandal broke.
There was little sign of buyers’ remorse among those Boris backers surveyed with 87 per cent claiming to be happy with how they voted in December 2019.
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