The party’s current poll lead suggests the main opposition party should win an absolute majority, but a long campaign lies ahead
Britain's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivers a speech in Glasgow on Friday to launch Scottish Labour's campaign ahead of the UK general election on July 4. Fourteen years of Conservative rule in the UK is coming to an end. Or so the opinion polls suggest. British prime minister Rishi Sunak has called time on a rudderless government, for so long living on borrowed time.
No time either for Sunak to boast of his own personal flagship achievements – no refugee flights yet to Rwanda, and “key” promised legislation on smoking bans, regulating football, renters and leaseholders rights swept away by the proroguing of parliament.The Dublin Portal: There’s no room for pretenders in Dublin and, like New York, it refuses to be sanitised
The big danger to a “remodelled” Labour Party, and its leader Keir Starmer, is the sort of complacency at the prospects of a landslide victory that once scuppered Neil Kinnock’s chances. And so the nervous party, determined to rebut traditional Tory claims of financial profligacy, has embraced Tory fiscal guidelines and junked or reworked many more radical policies, not least a commitment to a £28 billion green programme seen as crucial to rejuvenating the economy.
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