It wasn’t all bad news for the party. Labour made gains in and around London and the south-west city of Plymouth, while Theresa May’s Tories had a mixed night (though they will have feared much worse). But on the evidence of Thursday’s poll, Labour will need to broaden its appeal to gain a majority in a general election — currently set for 2022. [...]
Matthew Goodwin, an academic who has studied the realignment of British politics, pointed out that Labour was going to have to win around 65 more seats to get a majority in a general election. “Some of those potentially might come from areas like Scotland but some will have to come from areas outside of their heartland. They are going to have to try and make progress in some of these areas, otherwise the prospects of a majority will be slim at best,” he said. [...]
“The average voter will probably think that Brexit has come and gone and ‘where is my comprehensive immigration reform and where is my comprehensive exit from the EU?'” he said, adding that the referendum had not prompted any comprehensive national discussion about how to rejuvenate communities like Yarmouth which voted so strongly for Brexit.
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