The need to focus on core economic issues and build a bridge between urban progressives and working-class voters are key lessons for new UK PM
t 5 o’clock on Friday morning, just as the faint London dawn broke, Sir Keir Starmer walked into the huge Turbine Hall at the city’s Tate Modern museum to meet his supporters. He wore a smile that mixed delight and uncertainty and his eyes darted across the room.
Not everything on this astonishing night went quite as Labour wanted, though. Labour won their majority with barely more than a third of the vote, hardly an improvement on the dire performance of Jeremy Corbyn five years ago. They also lost seats of their own to pro-Palestinian independents and to Greens, with two members of Starmer’s shadow cabinet failing to be returned.
The situation facing Starmer is in many ways far harder than that facing Albanese though. Year after year, distrust of politicians has grown ever more intense in the UK. People of all backgrounds, ages, ideologies and from all parts of the country feel that their political leaders have ignored them and disrespected them. They have been promised the earth – especially with Brexit – and nothing has been delivered. They have made huge sacrifices and have received nothing in return.
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