port of that almost 20 per cent of skilled workers who have stopped voting Labour in the last ten years is one of the most urgent single tasks facing the support means rejecting all the fictions that are put around concerning what has happened and resolutely to be rejected is that Labour lost the support of skilled workers because its policies were too left wing' therefore Labour must go even further over to the right.
The fact that this is precisely the explanation given by the entire Tory press, Healey, Callaghan, and Duffy should already give rise to great suspicion - for after all when have they ever given good advice to the area of Thatcher's great electoral swing of 1979, then voting is absolutely clear. The Tory victory of 1970 was in very considerable part due to an enormous swing of the West Midlands in general, and the built ingham and Coventry in particular, away from the Labour Party.
The swing to the Birmingham-Coventry built up in 1970 was 6.1 per cent, and 5.8 per cent in the West Midlands as a whole, compared to 4.7 per cent in Britain as a whole. This West Midlands swing was easily the highest in the entire country and beat even the South East Chapple of England.
In 1974 exactly the same process happened but going in the opposite direction. In February 1974 Britain as its pattern of up area around BirmTories in the need to bel.
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