Even UK towns that hated Tories are now happy to vote for Theresa May
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IN 1980, David Cottrell was among 10,000 steel workers who lost their jobs under Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when the nationalised British Steel Corp closed its plant in Shotton, northeast Wales.
Thirty-seven years later, Mr Cottrell is 62 and owns the Creature Comforts pet shop in nearby Connah's Quay. Despite the massive job losses in the area under Mrs Thatcher, it's the Tories to whom the former Labour voter is turning this time around to safeguard the local economy.
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