Labour faces catastrophic loss of working-class support

Halifax has a proud place in Labour history, and its voters have duly dispatched Labour MPs to Westminster for the last 30 years.A textile town with a radical tradition, it was an early focal point for the Independent Labour Party, formed in 1893.On Saturday morning, two days after its disastrous byelection loss to the Tories more than 100 miles away in Copeland, Cumbria – an area that had been Labour since 1935 – there was little enthusiasm for the party or its leader, Jeremy Corbyn