Leader was, when he was running to be labour leaderwas, i when he was running to be labour leader was, i am the man who can recover the red wall, i can get labour back in action, seats where it has romantic attraction, where in many ways the labour party was born. this is the labour performance in those areas, and i want you to notice something, this is comparing the change not with the 2019 general election, but the 2018 local election, but the 2018 local election, because that is all it is fair to compare it to come at the last time the seats were contested. in the high leave voting areas, the labour party is treading water, down 0.5%, the conservatives down 3%, the other parties making up the difference. in the conservative election gains of 2019, compared to 2018, it is nip and tuck, labour up 1% come smack down 1%. two ways of looking at that, and that is the battle for these election results so far. on one hand, the labour party
A really difficult result for us in 2019, and it wasn tjust about brexit, although it was really important for people, it was about our leadership as well. but labour has moved on, we have a new leader, we have made clear our approach is to make brexit work, and we are changing, i think, to make brexit work, and we are changing, ithink, as to make brexit work, and we are changing, i think, as a to make brexit work, and we are changing, ithink, as a party, rebuilding in terms of, in barnet, for example, we had a real problem, and it was really important to rebuild the support among jewish communities who understandably had felt very angry with labour, and keir has turned that around. i think you have seen huge changes, and as a result, compared to the 2019 election, we have seen a big increase in support for labour in a lot of those areas where we lost constituencies badly in 2019. let’s constituencies badly in 2019. let s stick with the constituencies badly in 2019. let s stick wit