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The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election
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Starmer would probably like to introduce more left-wing policies, like when he said a couple of years ago that he wanted to abolish university tuition fees, but Corbyn's election losses seemed to lead Starmer to believe that he needed to be more centrist in order to successfully replace the Tories.
Anyway I think most people in Britain and around the world would refer to Labour as a centre-left party even if they disagree with Labour's policies.
What would I know, my references are only politics in 4 different countries including being a political party member in two of them, one of which was the UK ...
Maybe in some countries they wouldn't refer to Labour as centre-left, but I think the majority of Brits would agree with Labour being called centre-left.
For avoidance of confusion, I'm talking about New Labour, not traditional Labour.
Fair enough. I mean I would definitely say it's true that Starmer has moved rightwards since he was elected as Labour leader, but I guess I would consider him now being somewhere in the centre. People on the right would say he's far-left I bet. "Two-tier Keir" and all that.