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Spelling out the importance of the voting category earlier this week, Luke Tryl of More in Common said: 'For the Conservatives to avoid a 1997 style meltdown they need to win back some of those who voted Conservative in 2019 but now don't know who they will vote for and this group are around 70 per cent female.

'The group has an average age in the early 60s, tend to own their own home and live in a small town or suburb.

'Most don't have a degree and they tend to own their own home outright.'

A poll of Welsh voters for the More In Common thinktank shows the Labour is still way ahead with support at 45% compared to 21% for the Conservatives.

However, the same poll shows that a third of people think that Labour’s leader in Wales, Vaughan Gething, should resign over the donations scandal.

Majority want maintenance grants reintroduced for poorest students - poll

A poll for the Sutton Trust charity found 87% of Britons agree that the Government should provide financial support for students from low-income households while at university.

The survey, of more than 2,000 adults in England, Scotland and Wales, found the majority (53%) want to see maintenance grants for students from low-income households reinstated.

Luke Tryl, the UK director of More in Common, said that while the results suggest national service is not a “game-changer” of a policy, there is a “danger” for Labour to be seen to “rubbish it outright as a concept”.