Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
It has become something of a cliche to say that Labour’s election strategy is akin to someone slowly carrying a Ming vase across a slippery floor.supporters say there is little to be gained in the party doing or saying anything that could potentially damage its popularity.At the end of the first full week of campaigning, the vase remains upright but it is beginning to wobble.should be a Labour candidate, serious questions are being asked for the first time about the party’s campaign strategy.
“I’m sure there are some rubbish people from the moderate wing of the party who won’t be selected either. It is genuinely about improving the standard of the Parliamentary Labour Party, regardless of the election result.However, Starmer’s critics have been handed plenty of evidence this week to support their belief that the leadership’s approach is ideologically-driven.
Labour were handed a timely boost yesterday when Mark Logan, the outgoing Tory MP for Bolton North East, declared that he was“I believe as a politician it’s incumbent upon me to be able to look people in the eyes in Bolton and say that I believe that a Labour government is going to serve you better, your interests better, it’s going to be better for your pockets, it’s better for the economy, it’s going to be better for the UK,” he told the BBC.
The prime minister does have a chance to claw back some ground on Starmer next Tuesday evening when the first head-to-head debate of the campaign takes place on ITV.
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