Labor Party, led by Keir Starmer on the way to power again thirteen years later the arrival of the conservatives. There are two years until the elections, but they are already in election mode. Now to lead According to the latest Policy poll, the polls are twenty points ahead of the Tories. 46.5% for the Labor Party, 26.5% for the Conservatives and 9.4% for the Liberal Democrats. The Labor Party would get 361 seats (159 more than they currently hold) and the Conservatives 186 (-179). They would have a majority of 40 MPs in 2019, compared to most of the 80 MPs for the Conservatives.
The Conservatives are a long way off but are hoping to drop their leadership with the election of Rishi Sunak just two months ago. The Labor Party’s main enemy right now is inside its own party. To maintain this advantage, Starmer inner conflict between left and centre-left. The Labor Party ruled for thirteen years, from 1997 to 2010. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown with the centre-left New Labor Party. It has always been said that the party has a chance to rule only when it returns to the centre.
Jeremy Corbyn and Brexit
Contrary to forecasts, these divisions increased with the election. Jeremy Corbyn came to power in 2015 and radical left With the support of grassroots and trade unions and the 2016 Brexit referendum, a debate broke out in the Conservative Party that split British society and Labor. These divisions led worst loss in history Labor in 2019.
in April 2020 Starmer The new Labor leader was elected with the mission of saving the party from its ruins, ending the divisions between Corbynists and Blairists and the accusations of anti-Semism that tainted the party. Starmer was the European leader at the time of Brexit, married to a Jewish woman, and is raising his children in this faith. Agree to Brexit and suspend Corbyn accusing him of being anti-Semitic is only a divisive decision.
A recent Al Jazeera investigation revealed that the right wing of the party had launched an offensive. lies and false accusations campaign antisemitism towards left wing members discredit them and perform a cleanup. Given Starmer’s wave of strikes in the country, his decision in October expelled a Corbynista MP for joining the party. stake confronted unions within the Labor Party in a strike. The key for Starmer will be to find balance within her party.
interior partitions
This internal division prevented Labor from overthrowing the Conservatives, although it was broken and weakened by Brexit. It will be the key to the coming elections save the so-called “red wall”, Traditional Labor voters from the industrial areas of northern England who supported Johnson in 2019.
After the victory of the Democrats in November 2020 Joe Biden In the United States, Starmer urged his party to learn from the “broad coalition” formed by Biden that won back voters from Democrats to Trump for four years, noting the incoming president’s emphasis on “family, community and community”. security”. In his New Year’s speech, Starmer emphasized Westminster’s desire to reduce its power and hand it over to the communities.