The emergence of tactical voting as a significant force in the final days of campaigning in the UK election has made the Conservatives in this key region visibly nervous. Tactical voting “is purely around ‘stop Boris’,” says Dr Gemma Loomes, a politics lecturer at Keele University. Tactical voting could be very, very significant,” Loomes believes. Labour student member George Winter: “I sympathise with tactical voters, but here, there were 30 votes in the difference.” Photograph: Jennifer O’ConnellHere, in the ultra-marginal borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, voting tactically means voting Labour. She thinks the Conservative majority will be “in the high teens” and that “tactical voting could be the story of this election”.

Source: The Irish Times December 11, 2019 21:33 UTC