Unlike Brighton, which we heard about earlier, the coastal towns of England and Wales have been fertile ground for the Conservatives for well over a decade. But exclusive polling for Channel 4 News, conducted before Rishi Sunak’s D-Day debacle, shows Labour now leading in these so-called Sea Wall constituencies – by 20 points.
In the first of a series on these seaside towns, Kiran Moodley has been to Bournemouth – which has never returned a Labour MP.
