Red Wall voters won't be impressed by Boris's green agenda

The Red Wall, Blue Collar Conservative, Old Labour, Workington Man – or whatever name you wish to attach to this loose coalition – will be unimpressed by Boris’s ‘green industrial revolution’. This group of voters, many of whom had never turned to the Tories before, backed Boris Johnson to ‘get it done’. Their vote for Brexit was a vote for the economic prosperity that has eluded them for decades. Boris would be wise to remember this.

Would Red Wall voters have got behind David Cameron? It’s not likely, given that Cameron arguably saw his mission as being to ingratiate himself with disaffected Liberal Democrats and the great and the good on the international stage. But if these people shunned Cameron, they were, at least, impressed by his Eton and Oxford-educated contemporary. Why? Because of Boris’s pledge to ‘level up’ the country.