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Labour’s avoidable mistake in the May elections

New Statesman·Ethan Croft·27 days ago
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Photo by Suzanne Plunkett/ WPA Pool via Getty Images In the event of an electoral bloodbath, we got a taste of what the post-election Labour Party might look like this morning with the Daily Telegraph ’s splash in which Eluned Morgan, leader of Welsh Labour, candidly said that Keir Starmer “comes up as an issue on the doorstep”. While we’ve been out and about across the country , the NS politics team has heard much the same, privately, from Labour candidates. One prominent Scottish Labour MSP recently described the PM to me as “electoral Kryptonite” in Scotland. Plans are being made to shore up Starmer’s position if/when he faces a wave of personal recriminations for the party’s performance. But this will all be after the party potentially loses thousands of council seats and comes third in Wales – and the wave of emotion may be hard to bottle up.…

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