COMMENTARY

THE emergence ofworkington Man as the crucial voter has left manyworkington men and women feeling bemused.

Whatever you call them, working class voters have been let down by the party set up in their name. Labour has zero ambition for the North. They don’t want big employers moving there, welfare going down or council tax cut. Labour MPS and candidates peddle grievances, not ambitions.

Recent elections have seen Labour majorities dwindling, driven by working class voters.

This is why, together with MPS like Esther Mcvey and John Stevenson, I set up Blue Collar Conservatism: to show how it is the Conservatives who are on the side of working people.

It’s not gone unnoticed in seats likeworkington, which voted 60 per cent to leave, that their MPS have spent two years blocking what they voted for.

Conservatives can achieve this major realignment, not by being Labour-lite, but by being Conservatives.that twice as many working class people will vote Conservative than Labour at this election, according to ayougov poll, demonstrates that.the voters over which pundits are obsessing want to see services delivered efficiently but also to keep as much of their own money as possible.

This is why Boris Johnson’s focus on police, schools and the NHS, plus keeping taxes low, is so powerful. It is a Blue Collar Conservative agenda and will win Conservatives support across the Midlands and the North.