In a devastating blow to “the party of the working class”, the study show blue collar workers no longer believe the party represents their needs and concerns but is largely made up of posh virtue-signalling middle-classes playing at being proletarian.
A Deltapoll survey for The Mail on Sunday interviewed 1,526 British adults online between November 14 and 16 and found support for the Tories has surged to 45 percent.
It gives the Conservatives a 15-point overall lead over Labour, up from 12-points.
Among upper and middle class voters, the Tories hold a 13 point lead over Labour.
Shockingly, however, among working-class voters in the C2DE social brackets, the Tory lead jumps to 17 points.
45 percent of blue collar voters said they would vote for the Conservative Party, compared to 28 percent for Labour.
The polls confirm the party’s fears that it is becoming increasingly out of touch with its core traditional supporters.
Political philosopher John Gray has blamed the shift in working-class attitudes on the “unending ambiguity” of Labour’s position on Brexit and working-class voters being “repelled” by Labour’s hard-left elitist leaders.
Writing in the Mail of Sunday, he said: “These voters are repelled by the party Labour has become – a ragbag of sectarian ideologues fighting among themselves, with no concern for the values that move the masses Labour once led.”
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“Whether it be the public school Trotskyite slogans of Corby’s chief strategist Seumas Milne, or the convoluted lawyerly jargon of Keir Starmer, Labour speaks a language working people do not understand or trust.”
He concluded: “Labour’s sneering Leftists, who regard working people as fit only for Soviet-style re-education in politically correct attitudes, are deeply resented.
“Could it be that Johnson is popular among working-class voters because he encourages them to be patriotic about our country – and to feel positive about themselves?”
The Tory leader will need to win a string of Labour-held seats in northern working class areas in order to get a healthy majority.
Polling expert James Crouch said: “For the past six months the Conservatives have consolidated their position amongst Leave voters.
“Especially since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, week after week we have noticed more Brexit supporters falling in line behind the Conservatives.
“It might not be a new story, but now we are in a territory we haven’t seen before, with unprecedented numbers of Leave voters backing the Tories from all political backgrounds.”
