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Labour pays the price
Friday, May 2, 2008
During an interview with Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman on Five Live Breakfast this morning, Nicky Campbell read out an email from a Labour activist in the north of England who said three things had influenced people not to vote for the party in yesterday's local elections. One of them was the smoking ban.
Interesting. Very interesting.
As Forest has frequently said (even putting our money where our mouth is with advertisements in The House magazine, Blake's Parliamentary Yearbook and elsewhere): "Smokers are voters, too."
Now, I'm not naive enough to think that the smoking ban is a major election issue for most people, but in a tight election it could yet be a significant one.
The chickens, it seems, are coming home to roost. But is Labour listening?
Simon Clark
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