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Keir Starmer’s Labour: hope or despair? – Politics Weekly UK

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The Dangers of Starmarism

I think the more he references Tony Blair and the more they're compared, the more starmas weaknesses in his difficulty in possibly sharing a narrative. It seems to me that we've had lots of proof over the last decade that politics as usual doesn't work for people increasingly. And what worries me about starmarism is that it's a reversion to the kind of technocratic politics all those things were a reaction to. If you don't speak a language of hope and making people's lives better, nasty people might come along and do it, right? I worry that the stakes are very high.

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