Rishi Sunak will struggle to maintain support for both sides of the Conservative Party’s 2019 coalition after next autumn’s statement. “Red wall” and “blue wall” voters are sharply divided over what they want for the economy and cost of living.
a Reported by a think tank The prime minister has made it clear that he is trying to win back the blue wall voters who abandoned the Tories over Brexit and Partygate under Boris Johnson.
But the survey also found that the typical red wall voter has no sympathy for his government. Fifty-six percent of him in this group supported the Tories in his 2019, but according to a Public First poll on a report titled Sunak’s Choice, only a third said he would support today. less than 1 (32%).
The survey found that among some Tory MPs, Sunak Inadequately positioned to maintain a red wall votemeans that for the first time since the 2017 election, Labor has outperformed the Tories among its voter group with 41% support.
Only 18% of blue wall voters said they would never vote Conservative, compared to twice as many (36%) of red wall voters who said they would never vote for Snak. .
In Blue Wall, 37% of voters say they have a ‘reasonable chance’ of supporting the Liberal Democrats, with 35% of Conservatives and 24% of Labor saying the same.
The difficulty of the prime minister’s task next week is underscored by mixed expectations for the fall statement. Blue wall voters tended to support public spending cuts by 64% he to 39%, more than red wall voters who believed there was no obligation. The majority of Britons want their health, pensions and education protected from cuts.
But red wall voters prefer spending cuts (39%) to higher taxes (25%) as the best way to balance the budget. Support for tax hike measures dropped sharply in blue wall areas. However, there is relatively strong support across the UK for a windfall tax, income tax on high earners and higher corporate taxes on businesses.
Redwall voters want more help with their cost of living, and nearly 7 in 10 (69%) say too little is being done. But people in more traditional Tory areas disagreed, with 58% saying there was “enough” or “too much” to help. Red wall voters hold government accountable for the cost of living crisis, blue wall voters do not.
Support for an increase in benefits is higher in blue-walled areas (38%), where voters are more likely to say that benefits should rise in line with inflation than in red-walled voters (35%). A majority of Britons (51%) believe that benefits will only increase in line with wages (33%) or not at all (18%), and four in 10 believe that benefits will increase in line with inflation. think it should be increased (40%).
A significant number of red wall voters said that Sunak was “alienated from people like me” (58%), put the interests of the wealthy first (55%), and cared for themselves rather than the country. (50%) do their best for In focus groups, his personal wealth continues to be cited as a reason red wall voters don’t find him relatable.
More in Common Director Luke Tryl said: Has he continued to strengthen his support with the blue-walled traditional Tory voters who are returning to the party under his leadership?
“Or is he trying to mend his position with red wall voters who aren’t convinced he’s touching their lives and their struggles? It turns out that they want to hear different things, and it’s hard to see how the government can keep both sides of the Conservative camp happy.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/12/rishi-sunak-faces-struggle-retain-red-wall-blue-wall-voters Rishi Sunak struggles to retain both red wall and blue wall voters.Rishi Snack