If Labour want to win an election, they have to get used to going on the attack
Politicians use attack ads for the simple reason that they work.
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Politicians use attack ads for the simple reason that they work.
In 1946 there was a referendum in Britain, which the governing party lost 52 per cent to 48 per cent. It took place in Stevenage, over the proposed 1946 New Towns Act. When Lewis Silkin, the minister in charge of the expansion of Stevenage, arrived at the railway station, he was greeted with jeers and banners declaring the town should henceforth be known as “Silkingrad”.
Now, as he seeks to emulate these election victories, Sir Keir Starmer is being urged to focus on Stevenage Woman, a socially conservative mother working full time but struggling with the cost of living and disillusioned by politics
Labour Together, a think tank with close ties to the party leader and his top team, has suggested that the party needs to win over Stevenage Woman’.
The party is targeting ‘disillusioned suburbans’ like those in the Hertfordshire town, but what do actual Stevenage women think?