A former adviser to Keir Starmer on what his victory can teach the global left
You don’t have to splurge to woo back working people, says Claire Ainsley
THE LABOUR PARTY’S thumping victory in Britain’s general election seems to have bucked the trend of declining support for social-democratic parties, particularly in the face of fervour for the populist right. The left and centre in France have only staved off a triumph of the far right by standing down candidates to form a united front. In Germany the main party in the ruling coalition, the SPD, finished third in the European Parliament elections in June, behind the far-right Alternative für Deutschland. Those elections saw an overall shift to the political right in Europe.
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