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Nope, it's just pragmatic politics. If your opponent lurches right, you take the centre. You don't lurch left, if you want to win.
UK moves from centre right to centre left fairly predictably. Thankfully the hard right or left never get the popular vote.
Starmer seems quite boring but effective. I don't have a problem with that. Popularism is much more dangerous.
Well the Labour party tried that in 2019 with the worst results ever, you suggest a repeat?
And his problems were that he and his cohort were too far left to get elected.
Same as Kinnock.
Nothing more than centre left is electable, evidenced by the election results of the last hundred years.
Not being destroyed by the media is the job of political leaders...
Gordon Brown was more principled than Blair, but lacked the media savviness. Remember the 'bigot' open mic gaff ๐
Same. I'm just hoping it's just electioneering