The Man Who Had Caused Those Losses

Seen in the usual places:

The Labour Party is crowing that it might gain 100 seats from the Conservatives, but that would make Labour only the largest party in a hung Parliament.

In the normal course of events, then Labour would have become the largest party in a hung Parliament this year, five years after the General Election of 2017, if Keir Starmer had not unilaterally abandoned its clear 2017 manifesto commitment to Brexit. Boris Johnson seized his opportunity and called the 2019 Election. 

The seats that Labour lost to the Conservatives in 2019 were almost all in Leave-voting areas, and they had all returned Labour MPs under Jeremy Corbyn in 2017, yet the party plans to go into the next General Election under the man who had caused those losses.

The polls are narrowing. Starmer’s Labour will be very lucky indeed to be even so much as the largest party in a hung Parliament. 

Yours faithfully, 

David Lindsay

Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2019 and 2024