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The space to the left of Starmer is wide open
With Labour abandoning its base through welfare cuts and warmongering, a genuine progressive alternative is urgently needed but must avoid any whiff of Trump infatuation syndrome and national populism, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney (not seen) in 10 Downing Street, London, ahead of a bilateral meeting, March 17, 2025

“THE CENTRISTS in Labour are worried that an authentically left-wing rival party could emerge.”

Thus the usually interesting Telegraph columnist Sherelle Jacobs, apparently channelling the apprehensions of Downing Street.

Have the centrists — generous term by now — anything to be worried about? “Yes” would be the simple answer, not necessarily the longer one.

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