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Post Brexit voters have moved on from immigration - but the Tory Party haven't | New Statesman
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6:25Now PlayingPost Brexit Britain doesn't pay as much attention to immigration as it once did, yet Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party still focus on it, so much so that they are chasing "phantom voters."
The New Statesman's polling expert Ben Walker analyses the issue of immigration, how it was prominent in 2010 and 2015 elections, how after Brexit it has become less relevant to voters and what the Conservative Party are risking by still focussing on it.
Walker argues that "by going hard on the Rwanda, by going hard on immigration...Boris Johnson and the Tory Party are chasing "phantom voters."
Despite immigration's dominance in British politics in 2010-2016, with Brexit and several politicians including Nigel Farage, David Cameron, Theresa May discussing it at length, according to Walker, voters have largely moved on, but the Conservative Party as a whole is still stuck in the past.
As Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss campaign to be Tory leader and carry the party into the next general election, they both may not recognise that "immigration is not presently an election winning issue"
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