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Voters have shifted since 2017
Suspicion of Corbyn has crystallised into something harder for Labour to crack. His candidacy was once seen as eccentric, with the redeeming qualities of mildness and candour. Now canvassers encounter a more visceral aversion theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Whilst “dangerous” and “weak”is applied to Corbyn, Johnson is regarded as deeply unserious and untrustworthy.

You see it written on Johnson’s face too, at unguarded moments:
“the flicker of a guilty smile, the glint of disbelief around the eyes that, yes, he really is getting away with this; the furtive shuffle, like a schoolboy shoplifter, with unearned electoral advantage stuffed down his trousers,...
..sidling past the checkout hoping not to trigger any alarms before polling day.”
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