They turned Greater Manchester s Red Wall blue 12 months ago â but is it crumbling already because of Covid? I think there s still a lot of support from those who voted Tory perhaps for the first time last year.
17:48, 27 DEC 2020
James Daly, Conservative Party Candidate for Bury North (Image: Joel Goodman)
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A POLL predicting the majority of the so-called Conservative ‘Red Wall’ seats would return to Labour has been dismissed by a Bury Tory MP. Conservatives took both Bury North and Bury South seats at the December 2019 election - and made unexpected gains in the likes of Leigh and Burnley. But research by Channel 4 News claims Labour would now win 36 of the 45 seats the Tories gained a year ago. Bury North MP James Daly has little time for the results of the J.L. Partners survey. He said: “If I succeed in bringing more jobs, more businesses, more investment into Bury and get voted out in five years’ time, or whenever the next General Election is, I will consider that a success.
The results of the 2019 general election sent shockwaves through the region. The foundations of the so-called ‘Red Wall’ were rocked when Conservatives clinched narrow victories in constituencies dominated by Labour for decades. The Tories took both seats in Bury and gained one more seat in Bolton by the tightest of margins, while winning comfortably in Leigh for the first time ever. But 12 months into the job some surveys have suggested support is declining. The new MPs, many of whom were surprised themselves to be elected one year ago, have had to adapt to working in Westminster in the strangest of circumstances since the coronavirus crisis took hold early on in their career.