Here’s how bad it is for Sunak: I went to the most Tory seat in Britain – and the word on people’s lips was Reform

Here’s how bad it is for Sunak: I went to the most Tory seat in Britain – and the word on people’s lips was Reformf politics is a soap opera, the people of Canvey Island switched off a few years ago. This is England at its most Conservative, literally: the island is in the constituency ofThe Tories’ looming appointment with electoral calamity is evident from the responses I receive when visiting this Essex coastal town, which range from indifference to contempt.

That said, Reform has become a repository for the hopes of many former Tory supporters here. Steve, aged 70, is washing his car in the sun. A former printer and proud trade unionist, he tells me he was diagnosed with cancer just before the pandemic and despairs of an NHS that is struggling to function, with English waiting lists. “My partner, she’s got four appointments for four different issues, and we’ve had to go private,” he tells me.

Depressingly, there is no shortage of locals hurt by the broken economic system, but utterly repelled by politics. Tara, an insurance worker in her late 20s, puts her kid’s bike in the back of her car as she explains why she has never voted. “I think it’s all rigged, it’s just obvious that they do what they want, when they want,” she says, and yet she lists low wages as her key concern. Another young single mother, who finds the very concept of voting alien, raises the cost of housing.

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