She is said to be the key to Sir Keir Starmer’s hopes of winning the next election. Meet Stevenage Woman: a socially conservative mother working full-time but struggling to cope with the cost of living and increasingly disillusioned with the world of politics.
For some real-life Stevenage Women, living in the Hertfordshire town, it is a done deal. “Labour is winning me over already by the fact that Conservatives aren’t acting on what people are saying,” said Jade Herbaut, a 30-year-old primary school teacher and mother of three. “I don’t warm to Starmer but I think he’s the best of a bad bunch at the moment. We need change and we won’t get it with the Conservatives.”
As she watched her six-year-old daughter play on
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