if labour cant win a seat like mine, Nuneaton, a traditional labour seat in a fairly working class old industrial coal/metalwork town, then they have absoloutely zero chance in winning a safe tory seat in Witney. those people don't want to be taxed more and whilst they might be less bothered about Eurosceptic values and traditional social conservatism than working class voters affected by globalisation, they are still quite provincial in attitude. There are many small villages around Warwickshire/leciestershire that voted to leave, and I am guessing that a fair share of Oxfordshire constituencies voted to leave to.