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I mean, the reality is that they’ve mostly just cannibalised the conservative voter base.
The election results show that they’re not exactly sweeping labor strongholds, a lot of labor’s losses coming from SNP, the greens, lib dems and Plaid Cymru. Which is to say, that the voters aren’t pivoting to the right, they’re just pivoting away from labor.
If anything, it seems like media efforts to shove the voter base to the right, and labor’s effort to chase the media narrative, has just driven traditional conservative voters insane, while making left wing voters pissed at labor for moving so far rightwards.