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Kier Starmer: “We should treat the 2017 Manifesto as our foundational document”

This round up from Novara reminded me quite how explicit Starmer had been in his praise of the 2017 manifesto:

This was the manifesto on which Labour won 40% of the vote. This was the highest vote share in 18 years. Blair slightly exceeded it in his first two elections, dropping to 35% in his third election. Before this the last Labour leader to achieve that share of the vote had been Harold Wilson in 1970, nearly fifty years earlier. It just seemed so empirically obvious that the manifesto was a successful platform for a Labour pitch to a post-austerity country that I believed Starmer and the people around him might have reached the conclusion this was a viable political project. I’ve regretted this naiveté on a near daily basis over the last five years. It’s been formative to see how nakedly unapologetically deceptive the pitch to the Labour left was during the leadership election. I suspect Starmer has done more than anyone since Iraq-era Blair to destroy trust in politics and politicians.

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