Theresa May’s Conservatives are increasingly hoping to appeal to voters like Stan as she puts Britain on the path to Brexit, giving the party previously unimaginable hopes of winning in eurosceptic areas of the country once seen as Labor strongholds. I totally disagree with the Labor view on immigration. Labor voters have also been put off by party in-fighting and the hugely unpopular Jeremy Corbyn – resulting in a stunning by-election win for the Conservatives in Copeland, a northwestern area that has been a Labor seat since 1924. “Theresa May has been quite forceful in the way she is dealing with Brexit and I think she is probably one of the main ingredients to the success of the by-election,” said Ray Martin-Wells, chairman of Hartlepool Conservatives. Conservative ‘threat’Labor has held Hartlepool since the early 1960s, with “New Labor” architect Peter Mandelson securing 60 percent of the vote in 1997.

Source: Manila Times March 18, 2017 13:18 UTC