Taz: Mr. Massy, since the victory in the elections of the Labor, July 4, 2024, has already passed a year. The party crashed in polls, and not a single prime minister was unpopular than Keir Stander a year later. What went wrong?
Christopher Massy: Labor was elected as the pragmatic party of the Left Center in 2024. Before he became a party leader in 2020, Keir Standmer was near Jeremy Corbin. He promised nationalization, taxation of rich and free movement in the EU. Thanks to its absorption of party leadership, this lowered a place for leadership, oriented, pragmatic, technocratic and oriented political style. This helped to win the elections, but now it is part of the call. Stander won as a politician who was responsible when it comes to finance. But it was in the second, when he came to power, this was a drawback.
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In an interview: Christopher Massey
He teaches political history at the University of Tisside. He is also a labor council in Redkar and Cleveland and the director of Tisside Airport.
TAZ: Because the values of the Labor are no longer clearly recognizable?
Mossy: Even in the opposition, Strasser did not want to make big promises. He spoke out for restricting immigration – the topic of law, which for many years formed British policy. At the same time, he neglected classic laboratory topics, such as pensions or healthcare system. The late Labor historian Lewis Minkin once said that Tony Blair Laborist pulled out his left and put him in sealed burials. Stenmmer now represents additional armed guards before the burials.
TAZ: Is this the reason for the weakness of the Laborists a year after the election and growth of the British reform, the party of Nigel Faraja?
Mossy: Yes, but the Laborists hope that voters will be able to decide again between the two main parties in the next elections – labor or conservatives. It was so for more than 100 years.
TAZ: Tesside in the north -east of England, where they work, was the main area of the conservative “aligning” policy under Boris Johnson, which provided state investments in suspended industrial regions. Can voters: can recognize the difference between labor and Tori inside?
Mossy: I see the difference, the voters are probably less. Labor is trying to redistribute money more fairly and better. Tori created a system where bad areas had to compete for financial injections. In Eston, Redcar, where I am a municipal advice, Tori threw 20 million pounds, accompanied by large headlines and a banner in the city center: “completely leveled away.” This does not happen under labor. The party will say: we give you 20 million, but it will take 20 years.
TAZ: Is there a predecessor of the Stranders course in the work force?
Mossy: Harold Wilson (Prime Minister 1964–70 and 1974–76. Stander only offers the re -nationalization of the railway and vague hopes that the Laborists will be able to nationalize regional services in the future. At the same time, his government made unpopular decisions, which made weaker areas of the population, such as the abolition of benefits for heating for pensioners or reducing grants for grants for grants The children do not feel for large families that they have chosen the work of Stranders.
TAZ: How can Labor in the elections be sold?
Mossy: The program was thin in local elections in May, which worked poorly for labor. This promised improvements, but without substance. When the Labor speaks about the contractions in the Tori and the best redistribution, this is not particularly sexy. In such strongholds of labor as Newcastle or Damre, people do not accuse the conservative central government of reducing the last 15 years, the mayor of the probe. Progress will only slowly become visible, with a large number of civil servants and services.
TAZ: What will the Laborist try?
Mossy: I think that the Laborists will again loosen the wallet at half the legislative period, as all parties do. The hope is that by that time they proved that they could cope with finances responsibly, precisely because it was always an argument against labor. But I see in Tesside that the right middle has not disappeared. People who live more live here earn less, less educated, and most votes behind Brexit. Many of them turned to Tori or British reform.
Taz: Keir Wonder sees Nigel Farazh as his main opponent …
Mossy: The survey shows that only 4 percent of voters of AK reforms can imagine that when they choose work again. Why should you even try to turn to these voters? Isn’t the Labor better to deal with the party of urban academicians?
Taz: How, in your opinion, are you talking about the government of a stranger in the future?
Mossy:Keir Strends Labor made two things: institutional changes in the party and changes in the public image. Modernization in accordance with Korbin’s defeat in 2019 was successful. But this success can weigh the party in false safety. Were the election of 2024 the result of the trust of the Labor or the weakness of the conservatives? I do not think that Starmer will remember as a model, such as Tony Blair. In addition, you will not compare your term at a great time after 1945. The next party leadership may again go through a distance from average politics.
