Election 2024: In the final week of the campaign, plenty of people still don’t know how they’re going to vote
When the votes are counted after Friday's general election, they may well show big gains for Independents. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire, bosses for a century, is that the window for change has narrowed; that there’s only one show in town, and it’s a rerun.
Both parties have also positioned themselves as foregone conclusions. They have not so much run campaigns as performed them. There has been plenty of phoney sniping. Attempts to put some distance between each other and carve out separate identities feel akin to drawing a line in water. Interestingly, in the final week of the campaign, I know plenty of people who still don’t know how they’re going to vote, people who previously would have rattled off their voting preferences weeks out from polling day. Excitement and enthusiasm are in short supply.
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