Ben Habib

Red Wall voters won’t be impressed by Boris’s green agenda

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The Red Wall, Blue Collar Conservative, Old Labour, Workington Man – or whatever name you wish to attach to this loose coalition – will be unimpressed by Boris’s ‘green industrial revolution’. This group of voters, many of whom had never turned to the Tories before, backed Boris Johnson to ‘get it done’. Their vote for Brexit was a vote for the economic prosperity that has eluded them for decades.

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Ben Habib
Ben Habib is CEO of First Property Group, a former MEP for London and Chairman of Brexit Watch.

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