Generally speaking the conservatives have two demographics. I like to call them “Average Fantasists” and “Ideological Donors”. Appealing to either group is an

Generally speaking the conservatives have two demographics. I like to call them “Average Fantasists” and “Ideological Donors”. Appealing to either group is an exercise in optics. The Average Fantasists will still vote conservative despite being much more closely aligned to Labour policy (think NHS, rail nationalisation, police funding etc) because of non-issues such as immigration, the EU, the Royal Family, other Nationalism etc. The Ideological Donors on the other hand have a strong belief in free market economics and finance as the main economic driver, both of which are harmful to an economy in the medium to long term (and often the short term too.) Current IR35 rules were just bad optics to both groups. I’m personally super happy about the reversion back to the old rules. But I’ll never vote Tory, they’re a blight.