Angela Rayner has warned that “magnolia politics” is turning off voters and said the party needs to be bolder to win back its former heartlands.
The Deputy Labour Leader told Politico's Westminster Insider podcast people backed Boris Johnson because he “comes across as authentic” - admitting she might have been a Tory voter if she was an 18-year-old in Stockport. “For a long time, people have felt that politicians are just saying what they think they want to hear,” she said. “Or they try to ‘triangulate,’ is the word that they use.
I call it ‘magnolia politics.’ Let’s not offend anyone, and have no opinion on anything … I think all parties were a bit (guilty) of that.
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