'I don't think people believe the Tories anymore': Irish in Britain give their verdicts ahead of election

Irish people are entitled to vote in British elections, unlike other European passport holders

British prime minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer.

“This place is true blue. The idea of it turning Labour is seismic,” Corkman Mick Keigher said of his adoptive home in south east England.

But today, Folkestone, where the IT professional lives with his Cork-born wife Sheena Dempsey, a children’s book and graphic novel author and illustrator, looks likely to turn a historic red in the general election.