βWeβre taxing non-doms, not condoms!β: Labour strives to reconnect with disengaged voters
27 June 2024 at 02:00
In Hull East, less than half of the electorate went to the ballot box in 2019 β and, here and elsewhere, the party fears being caught out by political apathy
Even during a general election campaign with projections of historic β even unprecedented β results, people cannot always be relied upon to give their full attention.
βWe met a guy who said he was going to vote Labour but wouldnβt now because he had just heard that we were taxing condoms,β said Labourβs Karl Turner, who was first voted in as the MP for Hull East in 2010 and is standing for re-election this time.
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