‘I haven’t seen any change’: black Labour voters in Liverpool and London six months on
In Liverpool Riverside and Tottenham, two constituencies with black MPs and large black communities, Labour’s vote share dropped by more than 20 points at last year’s election. The Guardian spoke to voters there to find out what they have made of the party’s return to power
In Toxteth, a fast-gentrifying area of Liverpool that has for decades been the nucleus of the city’s 300-year-old black community, Saeed Olayiwola considered how the Labour government compared with the Conservatives. “I don’t see much that sets them apart at the moment,” Olayiwola said.
Since Keir Starmer’s government took power six months ago, voters in two urban constituencies, both represented by black Labour MPs – Liverpool Riverside and Tottenham in north London – have been weighing up the party’s decisions and talking to the Guardian.
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