Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
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Jon Cruddas is not someone with whom I would often agree these days — though I liked his “A Good Society” pitch some years back — but his Guardian article of December 30, “Keir Starmer lacks a clear sense of purpose,” has articulated, in bold but moderate terms, what many feel within as well as outside the Labour Party.
In a build-up to his book, A Century of Labour, which is out this month, Cruddas criticises Starmer’s “detachment from his party’s traditions.” He says, “little ties Starmer to the ethical and spiritual corners of Labour’s early founders,” and then goes on to criticise the leader’s approach to economics, inequality, justice, welfare, liberty, freedom — pretty much everything really.
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