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Helen Chandler-Wilde: The New Party Split Is Haves and Have Nots

Rachel Reeves today

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In the UK we’ve had years of news about traditional class-based voting patterns falling away, as people no longer split neatly for Labour and the Conservatives depending on their occupation.

But that could be ending; it looks like bloc voting is back, even if it’s now under new guises.