Britain’s Conservatives rule the Thames Estuary. Not for long

Sir Keir Starmer launched Labour’s general-election campaign in Gillingham, east of London in the Thames Estuary. He pronounced the name correctly (the first g is soft) and cracked a lame joke about the local football team. A constituency poll for The Economist by WeThink suggests his attentions will be amply rewarded. It puts Labour on 55%, the Conservative Party on 23% and Reform uk, an anti-immigration party, on 15% (see chart). If there is a glimmer of hope for the Tories, it is that many undecided voters plumped for them in 2019.