JOHN GRAY: Why the working class is deserting Labour | Daily Mail Online
Could it be that Johnson is popular among working-class voters because he encourages them to be patriotic about our country and to feel positive about themselves?
Most important of all, Johnson’s Conservatives realise how important it is to move on from the ghastly Groundhog Day of an unfinished Brexit.
At the last Election, old party loyalties proved stickier than expected and the shift to the Tories did not occur on a large enough scale.
This time could be different, with the supposedly backward-looking working class reshaping British politics in a historic switch of allegiance.