FORMER miners in Labour heartlands – who went on strike against Margaret Thatcher – have stunned the BBC by revealing that they will back Boris Johnson in order to get Brexit over the line.
Furious northern voters have turned their back on Jeremy Corbyn, sparking the dramatic collapse of Labour’s Red Wall in recent weeks. Former miners, who even went on strike against Margaret Thatcher in the 1980’s, told the BBC that they would vote for the Conservatives following their frustration with Brexit delays. Another lifelong Labour voter, Graham, in Wolverhampton branded Jeremy Corbyn “a communist berk” ahead of the 12 December election.
The backlash against Mr Corbyn’s leadership comes as a new survey put the Tories comfortably ten-point ahead of Labour with just a week of campaigning to go.
The BBC Radio 4’s Today host Mishal Hussein broadcast this morning’s programme live from Wolverhamptom, a region that voted “overwhelmingly” to leave the EU, but traditonally votes Labour.
The BBC’s East Midlands editor Tony Row said: “There is a lot of talk about this Red Wall, but that started to be breached back in 2010
“Even old coal mining town like Mansfield have turned to the Conservatives.”
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