A Labour win still seems likely, but where’s the narrative? As the Tories shift further right, the stakes couldn’t be higher, says Guardian columnist John Harris
aspects with the kind of free-marketry that so spectacularly imploded when Liz Truss was in charge; the latter would take her party perilously close to the kind of organised nastiness pioneered by such politicians as Nigel Farage and Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán.
In either scenario, the Tories would be backed by a fierce and formidable machine: the rightwing press, internet provocateurs, and the deeply anti-Labour voices now given a daily platform by TalkTV and GB News.
Those are the stakes. And in that sense, drawing attention to Starmer’s shortcomings ought not to be a matter of factional fighting or ideological point-scoring, but something much more universal: a reminder that for all our sakes, he urgently needs to up his game.
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