The polls may look good for the party, but those who saw real excitement in the Corbyn years know something is missing, says Andrew Fisher, Labour’s former executive director of policy
Jeremy Corbyn
When running for the leadership, Starmer proclaimed: “We should treat the 2017 manifesto as our foundational document, the radicalism and the hope that that inspired across the country was real. So we have to hang on to that as we go forward.” Does anyone believe he has hung on to that? Can anyone imagine hundreds of thousands of young peoplePart of the answer has to be a lack of policy radicalism. Workers face being made the scapegoat for Tory failure.
Listen to Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, whose members have been on strike. “If you sit on the fence, and Keir Starmer’s been sitting on the fence for too long, you get splinters in your backside … we have to defend ourselves, because clearly the Labour party are not going to do that.”Photograph: David Levene/The Guardianfrom Corbyn and John McDonnell in 2015, which gave confidence to campaigners inside and outside parliament.
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