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Budget 2017: pseudopulism fails to sway the polls

15 May 2017

7:49 AM

15 May 2017

7:49 AM

Theresa May is headed for a triple-digit majority in parliament, just two years after the Tories cobbled together a government by the skin of their teeth. Even more remarkably, these are working-class voters she’s drawing in: 40 per cent of manual labourers, casual workers, and pensioners intend to vote Tory; just 25 per cent say they’ll go Labour.

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