Sir Keir Starmer's first five years as Labour Party leader have seen dramatic highs and lows - but the next five will perhaps be even more challenging.

I found this interesting. It looks back at Sir Keir’s five years as the leader of Labour.

Here’s an interesting quote:

He turned left to win the party leadership and turned right to win a general election.

And regarding his campaign for the Labour leadership in 2020:

To win the backing of left-wing Labour activists, he backed a wealth tax on the top 5% of earners, abolishing university tuition fees, nationalising water and energy and restoring freedom of movement between the UK and EU countries. Whatever happened to those promises?

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 days ago

    For all important matters, Starmer is as bought up by corporate interests as the tories.

    It isn’t that to win the election he has to please voters. He mostly has to please the upper corporate class, who will use their immense media and financial power to do the rest of the work for him (ie. pleasing voters).

    Unfortunately, he did that, and is little more than a corporate puppet.