In David Cameron’s conference speech this lunchtime, the Prime Minister spoke about a voter who had reached out to him ahead of the election. He said that it was never too late to vote Tory given that an 82-year-old man by the name of Bernard Harris had written to him and said that despite being a traditional Labour voter he would be voting Conservative. Why? Well, he had realised that the Labour party does not serve the working class.
While Cameron had hoped Harris’s letter would serve as proof that today’s Labour voters are abandoning their old party for his, he may need to think again. It has since transpired that Harris is actually a regular Tory voter. In an interview on BBC Radio 5 live, the pensioner said that he hadn’t voted for Labour since the eighties:
‘I always thought of Labour when I was a trade unionist. But when I retired in 1988 from the fire service and I had more time to think, I found that my allegiance – common sense – took me from the Labour Party to the Conservative Party.’
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