With a recent YouGov poll giving Labour a six-point-lead over the Conservatives, it’s little wonder that Jeremy Corbyn is keen to pitch his party as a government-in-waiting. In this vein, the Labour leader has been visiting Tory marginals on weekends.
On Saturday, Corbyn was in Hastings & Rye, where the Home Secretary clung onto her seat by the smallest of margins in the snap election:
‘Once a ‘safe Tory seat’, now a marginal, we will win Hastings & Rye at the next election.’
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/883279441941725185
But was Hastings & Rye really a ‘safe Tory seat’ until the Corbynistas arrived on the scene? In truth, the seat is hardly a Tory stronghold – it was held by Labour’s Michael Foster from 1997 to 2010 when Amber Rudd defied the odds and turned it blue with a narrow majority of 2,000. Mr S suspects this is one stop on Corbyn’s tour where the Labour leader could be accused of playing it safe.
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