Labour is on the brink of power, if only Keir Starmer truly believed it ✒️ KateMaltby for ipaperviews
The party leader needs to give up on playing defence, while Sunak’s limp speech shows he’s still a mediocre political performerIt will not surprise readers to learn that senior Conservatives. For one party elder statesman, with whom I caught up earlier this week, “the only question is whether we’re out of power for five years, or 15.”
What will surprise some readers is that plenty of senior Labour figures also expect to lose the next election. We’re not just talking about the hard left, inevitably reluctant to accept that squeezing their candidates out of target seats like Kensington is a winning strategy. Sure, for some the mood is buoyant. At a Christmas party I attended this year peppered with Labour rainmakers, some of those present seemed giddy with proximity to power. More than one person decided to deliver an impromptu toast to Keir Starmer, present in the room, with an enthusiastic shopping list of policy proposals they fully expected him to implement when – not if – he walked into Downing Street at the head of a Labour government.
Every survey taken in the last couple of months reflects the rampant chaos that has marked the last six months of life in the Conservative Party. The campaign group Best of Britain this week put pressure on Starmer by releasing an analysis of Focaldata polling from October, which highlighted the large numbers of people answering “don’t know” on their voting intentions, despite the fact that most were being polled even as Liz Truss’s government fell.
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