Synopsis
"This week, the folk at Policy Exchange have produced an absolute telephone directory of a report on what the voters are thinking. Called Northern Lights, it takes as its starting point the remarkable gap between attitudes in the North and South, to the point where every single socio-economic category in the South, from DEs up to ABs, is more likely to vote Tory than even the most highly educated, highest-earning Northerners.
"So what's going on? Building on Fraser Nelson's idea of "Tricolour Britain" – Scot Nats to the north, Tories to the south and Labour in the middle – authors Neil O'Brien and Anthony Wells (of YouGov) argue that it isn't so much about regional prejudice, and it's definitely not about class."
Neil O'Brien
Northern Lights: Public policy and the geography of political attitudes in Britain today