Labour's Momentum is particularly proud of its 'decapitation' strategy, targeting senior Tories with slim majorities
still means knocks on the door and uneasy garden-path chats. You’re settling down to the new season of “The Crown” when democracy intrudes in all its irritating vulgarity. If you tell the candidate you are wavering, you are in for a long conversation. If you express enthusiasm, you might end up with a poster in your window and a spell rapping on doors yourself.
The answer is partly that canvassing provides parties with local knowledge. Banging on doors is not only the best way to identify your supporters. It is also the best way to gauge degrees of warmth or hostility. Waverers can be targeted for another visit. Get-off-my-lawn types can be written off. Old-fashioned canvassing works seamlessly with modern technology, as canvassers use apps such as MiniTouch that allow them to feed doorstep responses into a central database.
Mr Gyimah points out that his new party has 120,000 members, three-quarters of whom have joined since 2015. They are younger than the Lib Dems of old, and fired up about the Brexit debacle. He also points out that his new party is polling twice as well as it was at this stage of the race in 2017. But for all his enthusiasm the most important battle across the country is between Labour and the Tories.
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