Britain’s opposition Labour Party won contests for two new lawmakers on Friday, dealing a crushing blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives before a national election later this year.
The double defeat underlined the flagging fortunes of the governing party and will do little to silence Sunak’s critics, who fear the Conservatives could face an all-but wipe-out at the national election and want him to change course.
The 43-year-old former investment banker has struggled to restore his party’s fortunes despite recasting himself at various points over the past year as a bold reformer, a stable technocrat and now as someone who needs more time “to stick to the plan” because, he says, that plan is working.
The issue is that if Labour had someone true to how the party was 50+ years ago, then people would end up voting Lib Dem, Green or even incompetent Tory… There hasn’t been a “true” Labour pm since the 70s because (due to the media slander, changing perceptions or whatever else you want to attribute the underlying cause to) people won’t go out and vote for one.
I will admit I’m probably biased here as I’m centre to centre-left, I voted Lib Dem last time in a marginal Lib Dem/Tory seat and probably would’ve done the same in any other seat, this time I’m still undecided between Lib Dem & Labour, but I think the Blair government was pretty good as governments go and just shows how effective a government led by someone who is not quite left wing enough to lose support from the centre but still enacts undeniably left wing policies can be
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