>**Not even Sir Keir Starmer’s most fervent cheerleaders in the Labour party would suggest he has the kind of charisma or campaigning skills of Blair or Obama. However, strategists in Labour HQ are now pointing to a wave of recent international election results to show Starmer doesn’t need to.**
>Several party sources told City A.M. that Labour is planning on using the blueprint for election victories by centre-left parties in Australia and Germany as a guide for how to win power in 2024. Australian Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, an un-flashy and unashamed political nerd, beat Scott Morrison in May’s General Election to overturn nine years of conservative government.
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>Australian Labor’s plan was to offer a so-called small target to the electorate that was devoid of big spending pledges and to depict Albanese as a steady change from the increasingly unpopular Morrison. While the results showed the Australian public were not excited by Albanese, Labor’s primary vote dropped to one of its lowest ever ebbs, they still voted to oust the populist Morrison after an endless stream of sleaze scandals involving his party (sound familiar?).
>**One senior Labour source told City A.M. that Starmer’s team wanted to copy this model and effectively “win by default” in 2024 ahead of a now very unpopular Conservative party.**
Basically the Ed Miliband 2015 strategy, except this time it may actually work because Starmer’s facing a much shittier Tory leader than David Cameron.
No ideas of his own then?
Australians only come to the UK to work in starbucks and snort coke for a year, they aren’t going to pick fruit.
So, hedging the bet against the Tories making another fuck up.
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>**Not even Sir Keir Starmer’s most fervent cheerleaders in the Labour party would suggest he has the kind of charisma or campaigning skills of Blair or Obama. However, strategists in Labour HQ are now pointing to a wave of recent international election results to show Starmer doesn’t need to.**
>Several party sources told City A.M. that Labour is planning on using the blueprint for election victories by centre-left parties in Australia and Germany as a guide for how to win power in 2024. Australian Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, an un-flashy and unashamed political nerd, beat Scott Morrison in May’s General Election to overturn nine years of conservative government.
…
>Australian Labor’s plan was to offer a so-called small target to the electorate that was devoid of big spending pledges and to depict Albanese as a steady change from the increasingly unpopular Morrison. While the results showed the Australian public were not excited by Albanese, Labor’s primary vote dropped to one of its lowest ever ebbs, they still voted to oust the populist Morrison after an endless stream of sleaze scandals involving his party (sound familiar?).
>**One senior Labour source told City A.M. that Starmer’s team wanted to copy this model and effectively “win by default” in 2024 ahead of a now very unpopular Conservative party.**
Basically the Ed Miliband 2015 strategy, except this time it may actually work because Starmer’s facing a much shittier Tory leader than David Cameron.
No ideas of his own then?
Australians only come to the UK to work in starbucks and snort coke for a year, they aren’t going to pick fruit.
So, hedging the bet against the Tories making another fuck up.
She took me in and made me breakfast.