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Talk about a realignment. Of the Britons who plumped for the Liberal Democrats in 2019, 45% now intend to vote for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour in the upcoming general election. That’s marginally more than the 44% of the 2019 Lib Dem contingent planning to vote for Ed Davey’s party this time around, according to a new YouGov poll.
But that’s only part of the great political switch-up registered by the poll. While the Labour Party has hoovered up a big chunk of the 2019 Conservative vote, the party has also lost almost 10% of its voters from five years ago to the Green Party. Unsurprisingly, just over a quarter of the 2019 Tory vote has gone to Reform, following on from Lee Anderson. The 3% who flipped from Lib Dem to Reform must be an interesting bunch…
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