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Nothing at all, as they weren't in government. However, as my later comment added, my drift to the left wasn't rooted in party politics. It's been more an awareness of issues around inequality. Now, ten years later, I've no faith that the Tories are the party to address the increasing...

Not really. My conversion wasn't even really steeped in party political points scoring. More of a wider inequality thing. Personally it was the point where I came to believe that the "trickledown economics" that we had been sold by the right was a pup. The rest kind of kicked on from there...

I was solidly Tory until the financial crash on 2008. Since then it's been a steady drift to the left encompassing votes for the LibDems, Labour and Greens depending on the election and candidates available. Odd to have a political conversion occur squarely in middle age.