Blue wall (British politics) In British politics, the blue wall is a set of parliamentary constituencies in southern England which have traditionally voted for the Conservative Party, but generally opposed Brexit and are seen as being potentially vulnerable to gains either by the Liberal Democrats or the Labour Party. [1]. Blue Wall seats are largely found on the outskirts of big cities or in prosperous commuter towns of England, mostly.
A similar realignment seems to be occurring in the south of England, in what has been dubbed the Blue Wall. The Blue Wall has previously been described by Steve Akehurst as containing 41 seats held by the Conservatives since 2010 with a majority below 10,000, and where either Labour or the Liberal Democrats outperformed their national swing. The Blue Wall in southern England has indeed crumbled, with the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats making unprecedented gains, and in some instances winning erstwhile Conservative seats for the first time.
Nigel Farage: Blue Wall voters don't want to see the Tories offering Farage a senior role in the Conservative Party. European Court of Human Rights vs Tory Party: Blue Wall voters have a much more positive view about the European Court of Human Rights (+8 approval rating) than they have about the Conservative party (-26 approval rating). In 2019, the fall of Labour's "Red Wall" in the North and the Midlands exposed a seismic realignment of the British electorate and gave the Conservatives a historic election victory.
Yet, just two years later, a series of by-election losses have shifted the focus southwards, to a so-called "Blue Wall" in the South of England. But how real is the Blue Wall? Where will tomorrow's electoral. But south-east England has been dominated by the Conservatives for at least 14 years.
In some constituencies they've never been out of power. So, is the so-called blue wall really about to crumble? In the Blue Wall, the two polls tell somewhat different stories.
But in both Labour win seats across Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Oxfordshire - the shires and the home counties: the redoubts of Conservative England. Blue Wall voters are notably more socially liberal than Red Wall voters and the country at large However, the two battlegrounds are a little closer together on economics. The results of the 2017 and 2019 general elections, showing blocks of Labour support (in red) in the West Midlands, Lancashire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, and North East England Map (in equal-size constituencies) of the 2017 general election results showing the red wall The red wall is a term used in British politics to describe the UK Parliament constituencies in the Midlands and.
