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7. Mansfield appears to have been targeted by the Conservatives
Sun Jan 21, 2018, 04:55 PM
Jan 2018

Very much like North East Derbyshire where I live. The Tories heavily outspent a rather moribund Labour campaign here and appear to have done the same in Mansfield, spurred on by the EU referendum result and demographic changes moving the area away from Labour.

By contrast, Momentum gave strong backing to O'Mara and heavily targeted Sheffield Hallam. If you want to make a Corbyn fanboy squirm, ask them why they targeted Sheffield Hallam so heavily and neglected the neighbouring seat of North East Derbyshire that was being targeted in a big way by the Conservatives.

I should also add that I can't blame Mansfield voters too much for Ben Bradley. The Conservative election campaign was so heavily focused on Theresa May that people probably thought that she was the local candidate!

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