Luke Tryl
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1,318 appearances
10 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Aug
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But what's interesting about it, as you just heard, is that I think there's a risk of mischaracterising it as we sort of think of Red Wall areas as kind of very down on their luck.
Classic left behind.
And actually, you know, as you just heard, what's really interesting about the seats, even within the seat, there are pockets of affluence.
There are some very deprived areas.
And actually, some of those deprived areas have a history of voting problems.
not electing, but significantly high numbers voting for UKIP, for the BNP as well.
So, you know, the sort of radical or far right has done well in parts of the constituency before.
Other bits where independents have actually done quite well throughout the period.
So the idea of it as a Labour monolith can be overstated, but certainly, you know, at a parliamentary level,
They've held that seat since its creation.
Well, it's interesting.
I mean, if you look at the local elections, there was a really clear correlation still between the reform vote and the leave vote in the referendum.
And that bodes very well for reform in this by-election because Makefield is a constituency where two thirds voted to leave.
Now,
That's not to say that Brexit is particularly salient at the moment.
It doesn't come up in focus groups.
But it's way down the list.
But it's more about, I think, what Brexit stood for beyond the EU.
That sense of places like the Makefield seat, places like Ashton Makefield in the constituency feeling overlooked, right?
And I think the danger of reopening the Brexit debate is less about Europe in of itself and more people start to go, oh, did they not learn their lesson from that at all?
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