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A warning from history for Keir Starmer

14 November 2020

6:30 PM

14 November 2020

6:30 PM

It is nearly a year since one of the Labour party’s worst ever election defeats; and just over six months since Keir Starmer became its leader. Starmer has acknowledged that his party has a mountain to climb if it is to win the next election, but that is his target.

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Steven Fielding is professor of political history at the University of Nottingham and is writing ‘The Labour Party: from Callaghan to Starmer’ for Polity Press. On Twitter he is @PolProfSteve


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