Johnny Mercer and Fred Thomas – his Labour rival, and a former member of the Royal Marines – have been in a protracted public spat about the latter’s military record.
The overall picture, however, remains broadly the same. Kemi Badenoch, Johnny Mercer, and Penny Mordaunt continue to hog the podium, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Tomlinson remain at the bottom.
She, Penny Mordaunt, and Johnny Mercer continue to simply trade places on the podium, as they have since November – and only these three have a positive score of over 30 points.
Labour don’t have a plan for our iconic dockyard – or our country. Both locally and nationally, their only strategy is to dine out on public opinion, rather than to offer a positive vision. People in Plymouth are waking up to this.
Meanwhile Penny Mordaunt overleaps Kemi Badenoch to take top billing after being front and centre in the row over Speaker Hoyle a couple of weeks ago.
The Veterans’ Minister adds that “it’s a really difficult policy area” but that 400 people are being housed and he is “really proud of the effort.”
This Government is committed to championing the needs of those who have given so much, and will continue to build on the huge strides already taken to genuinely improve veterans’ care across the United Kingdom.
In all three seats, the local incumbent had a positive local profile and voters were unclear on whether Labour or the Liberal Democrats were the principle opposition. But it still wasn’t a rosy picture.