The PM offers a political hybrid designed for a fickle electorate. There are short-term electoral gains to be won, but risks in the long term<\/p>\n
For more than eight months now, since shortly after Labour won power, more and more people have been outraged by the government\u2019s moves to the right. Starting with its decision to keep the Conservatives\u2019 cruel two-child benefit cap<\/a> last July, the government has regularly given these critics reasons to feel shocked, betrayed or just disappointed.<\/p>\n From deportation videos<\/a> to Keir Starmer\u2019s declaration<\/a> that \u201cI like and respect\u201d Donald Trump, from repeated public sector cuts to the chancellor Rachel Reeves\u2019s talk of \u201ctearing down<\/a> regulatory barriers\u201d in this week\u2019s spring statement, Labour has often behaved as if the boundaries between its supposedly centre-left politics and the politics of the right or even the far right have simply melted away.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The PM offers a political hybrid designed for a fickle electorate. There are short-term electoral gains to be won, but risks in the long term For more than eight months now, since shortly after Labour won power, more and more people have been outraged by the government\u2019s moves to the right. Starting with its decision … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}