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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Dan Haygarth

‘It’s not the old Labour we had’: Voters feel abandoned in red wall town eyed up by Nigel Farage

Sandra Hilton and Janet Wylde in St Helens town centre - (The Independent)

On a grey Tuesday morning, a handful of people are milling around the centre of St Helens.

It is market day but the town is quiet, with just a handful of locals making their way between the offerings of clothes, phone cases, flowers and fresh produce.

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