What’s the Labour party’s biggest weakness at the ballot box? After the last election, Brexit and Corbyn were credited by Tory MPs with helping them win the biggest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher. But now the UK is out of the EU and Keir Starmer in charge, there’s an argument that it’s now the economy that is their biggest weakness.
A YouGov poll over the summer found that while Starmer’s personal approval ratings are promising, only 19 per cent of voters believe that Labour to be best at handling the economy, compared with 37 per cent who say the Tories are. Given that six in ten voters view the economy as their biggest priority, that’s not an encouraging sign for Labour.
Dodds used the lecture to move the party away from the hard-left economic policies of Corbyn
So Wednesday’s speech by Anneliese Dodds on the party’s economic vision offers an important indicator of Labour’s plan to rectify this.
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