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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

South Swindon voters lean to Labour after ‘kick in the teeth’ Tory budget

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Positive aspects of the chancellor’s budget, such as the expansion of free childcare, appeared to be interpreted as deceptive. Photograph: Rawpixel/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Voters in a bellwether south-west England constituency are willing to back Labour at the next election as the “dead-walking Conservative government” has failed to ease the pressure on working people and struggling public services.

In Sir Robert Buckland MP’s South Swindon seat, Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget felt like a “kick in the teeth” as the highest earners were rewarded with a huge pensions giveaway, while the working class received no gains.

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