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Who’s afraid of Keir Starmer?

It’s impossible for the Tories to demonise the Labour leader

14 January 2023

9:00 AM

14 January 2023

9:00 AM

Fear of the Labour party has long been the most powerful Tory weapon. During every election campaign, the Tory strategy is to talk up the threat of Labour: the demon-eyed Tony Blair, ‘Red’ Ed Miliband or the Corbynite menace. Tories, for all their quirks and flaws, keep the other guys, the dangerous ones, out of power.

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