Charismatic leaders and the left’s electoral failures | Letters

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Letters: Readers including Labour peer David Lipsey discuss Jonathan Freedland’s article on Labour’s next leader and what the defeated party needs to do to win over voters and get back into government

Jonathan Freedland believes that the centre-left needs a charismatic leader, citing Clinton, Blair and Obama as evidence that such a leader could be a winner . The trouble is, they weren’t centre-left. They were neoliberals who perpetuated, and sometimes drove forward, the project for privatisation, deindustrialisation and adventurist, regime-change wars.

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