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Article: SPECIAL REPORT Labour fears a bloody nose in its own 'safe seat'
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- May 11, 2008
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"DON'T GET me started on Gordon Brown," says Stephen Hodgkinson,
a car sprayer at Bentley, Crewe's biggest employer.
But it's too late. The 46-year-old lifelong Labour voter,
shopping in the High Street with his wife Tracy, is already building
up a head of steam to rival anything the old trains used to produce
in this Cheshire railway town.
"Everything's gone up - petrol, food, council tax, and there's no
end in sight," he fumes. "It's getting to crisis point. This time
I'll definitely be voting Tory."
The Hodgkinsons are not alone. The Sunday Telegraph heard similar
views in other parts of the "safe" Labour seat of Crewe and Nantwich
as voters gear up for a crucial by-election on May 22.
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