Party planning offensive to counter view held by some voters that the Tories are stronger on the economyJeremy Corbyn will place older voters at the heart of a new strategy that will challenge the Conservative party’s economic credibility, the Guardian understands. “With younger voters there [was] a lot of scepticism about the banks and why the economy had gone down the pan. The older voters maybe still believed that Labour had been profligate and [it] takes longer to win that ground back,” said Howell, who is returning to work at the PR firm he founded, Freshwater. A senior Labour source admitted that older voters were less convinced by the party on the economy than other groups, but also gave other reasons for their lack of support. Howell, who was described by a senior Labour source as “unhinged” in a newspaper report, said the disagreements were not personal.

Source: The Guardian October 30, 2017 11:05 UTC