‘I’m picking up bad vibes’: voters unimpressed by Labour after three months in power

Labour’s party conference, or indeed any sense of what the new government was going to do to make their lives better, had barely cut through. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

“Boris Johnson was such a numpty, have we got another numpty now?” asked Tal, a business analyst, after the end of the Labour party conference on Wednesday.

His question summed up the mood of the voters More in Common spoke to in a focus group in Hendon, a seat Labour won in July by just 15 votes. The group had largely switched from Conservative to Labour at the last election.