Yahoo News Have people changed their minds during general election campaign?
With just days to go until the country goes to the polls, we asked the people of Liverpool if anything has made them change their mind during the election campaign.
No one who we spoke to had changed their mind in the time since a rather damp Rishi Sunak called a general election on May 22.
Despite this, many people seemed to have changed their party allegiance since the last general election in 2019. We hit the streets of Toxteth to speak to voters.
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Christine Mallinson, for example told us: “I’ve voted for just anybody [an independent candidate], I have always voted Labour, but I won’t vote Labour again.
This sentiment was shared with a man, who told us: ‘I’ve always voted Labour but now Labour is not the party it used to be, I’ve swung to the greens.”
Despite polls showing that the Labour Party are seemingly likely to secure a sizeable majority on July 4, there seemed to be a general lack of excitement or enthusiasm for a Labour government from some in the city.
28-year-old Adam Gardiner told us: “All in all, I’ve not really changed my mind, I knew who I was going to vote for at the start of the campaign and it’s still the same.”
Despite having not changed his mind, Adam did admit to having a few moments of uncertainty about his vote.
He said: “There have been moments when I’ve had to think, do I need to change my mind? Like the way Keir Starmer and Labour dealt with the Diane Abbott situation, I thought it was quite messy and it didn’t need to be that messy.
“You do wonder that if someone like that is in charge of the country, what else are they going potentially to deal with in a way that is less than ideal.”
The Labour Party are tipped to take all Merseyside seats on July 4 so it is of little surprise that we bumped into plenty of Labour supporters.
For example, Paddy, 21, from Wavertree told us: “I believe we are on the right tracks, small steps are better than no steps, I do have faith in the Labour party but we’ll see if things change or not.”
We also came across several people are still unsure which box their cross will go in on polling day.
Adam Hay fit into this category. The 31-year-old said: "I’m pretty unconvinced by everyone at the moment."
This sense of apathy was shared by 22-year-old student Harry Lucas who said: “I wasn’t even sure about voting at all to be honest, it’s a lack of trust with politicians in general.”
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