Britain’s Labour Party takes lessons from Joe Biden
Under Sir Keir Starmer Labour, once again, is infatuated with the Democrats
VISITING WASHINGTON this month, David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, and John Healey, his colleague covering defence, paused for a photo by a bronze memorial to President Franklin Roosevelt. It was a nod to another photo taken at the same spot of Tony Blair, then the new prime minister, Bill Clinton, then the president, and their wives. That was in 1998, a time of “third way” politics, when the leaders of the Labour and the Democratic parties hoped to fuse a belief in free markets with social progress.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Biden’s Britain?”
Britain September 30th 2023
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