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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown, Josh Halliday and Robyn Vinter

‘This lot? No way’: what ‘red wall’ voters think now of Johnson, the Tories and Labour

The quayside in Blyth
The quayside in Blyth. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Three years on from 12 December 2019, when Boris Johnson broke through Labour’s “red wall” of constituencies in the north of England to win a seismic general election victory, Guardian writers return to three of them find out how those voters feel about him, the government, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.

Blyth: ‘I would definitely vote Starmer now, 100%’

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