Sean Fear’s Friday Slot
Has Labour Lost Its Core Working Class Supporters? It has become fashionable to argue that Labour has alienated its core working class supporters, in favour of middle income supporters in marginal constituencies. A good example of this was written by Seamus Milne in yesterday’s Guardian , and plenty of other left-wing commentators, such as Polly Toynbee, Roy Hattersley, and Dagenham MP, John Cruddas, make the same point. Usually, the argument is that Labour’s core supporters have lost out economically, although…