I’m not from the UK, but I’ve been trying to understand more about UK politics because of the election and I’ve seen headlines saying the Starmer has been pushing the Labour party to the center. What does that mean in terms of policies he’s said he will push? Also, now that they have won an overwhelming majority, do you think the party will actually use this opportunity to push the UK more left?
Politicsjoe is a good outlet for uk politics. Or watch John Oliver’s recent episode Essentially, the UK has had fiscal austerity for 14 years under the conservatives. To prove that labor will be ‘good for business’ their new platform maintains the same cuts and has tied their own hands on taxing.
So, fiscally, there wasn’t much diff with the conservatives, minus some crazy tory boondoggles like tax cuts for rich and paying tons to Rwanda to deport asylum seekers.