By Invitation | British politics

A former adviser to Keir Starmer on what his victory can teach the global left

You don’t have to splurge to woo back working people, says Claire Ainsley

Illustration: Dan Williams

THE LABOUR PARTY’S thumping victory in Britain’s general election seems to have bucked the trend of declining support for social-democratic parties, particularly in the face of fervour for the populist right. The left and centre in France have only staved off a triumph of the far right by standing down candidates to form a united front. In Germany the main party in the ruling coalition, the SPD, finished third in the European Parliament elections in June, behind the far-right Alternative für Deutschland. Those elections saw an overall shift to the political right in Europe.

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