'Imagine the state we’d be in if Corbyn had been in charge' the view from the 'red wall'
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Working-class voters in Leigh do not regret voting for Tories after listening to chancellor’s summer statement
Before the pandemic hit the UK, the Guardian’s North of England editor, Helen Pidd, and photographer Chris Thomond spent time in Leigh, a “red wall” constituency in Wigan, Greater Manchester, which had just gone Conservative for the first time in more than 100 years. They returned on Wednesday to ask what residents thought of Rishi Sunak’s summer statement.
It was early March when we first met Jamie-Lea Dooley at her youth club in Tyldesley, in the north of the Leigh constituency. About to turn 16, she had just received her National Insurance card and hoped to soon have a weekend job. “It is my greatest fear to not have money, to be struggling,” she said. She’d heard it was getting increasingly hard to get a mortgage, and wondered if she would ever own her own home, with average house prices already almost £190,000 where she lives. Continue reading...
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