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The final straw?
Starmer’s unseemly rush to the right is part of a historical pattern when Labour is in power, argues ANDREW MURRAY, but there’s no reason why politics in general should follow this trajectory

IT SEEMS to be a law of British political history that every Labour government ends up further to the right than it started out, no matter what the point of departure.

Ramsay MacDonald had modest plans in 1929, but they did not include cutting unemployment benefit and forming a coalition with the Tories two years later.

Clement Attlee set out all nationalisations and health service but ended up cutting welfare to fund aggression in Korea.

Echoes of Salisbury

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