Everywhere I go in Britain, people are exhausted. But there’s good reason to believe a Labour government would bring unseen possibilities, says Guardian columnist John Harris
Everywhere I go in Britain, people are exhausted. But there’s good reason to believe a Labour government would bring unseen possibilitiesn the midst of dizzying opinion polls and a seemingly unprecedented Tory collapse, it is worth remembering a basic political fact:Some of this is down to the UK’s creaking electoral system, and the awkward coalition of voters Labour must build to surmount it, from pensioners in post-industrial towns to urban twentysomethings.
Yet here we are, not just with the Tories crumbling, but a Labour party seemingly on the brink of triumph less than five years after a historic drubbing, thanks partly to its accurate reading of how people think and feel. The leadership’s sometimes unbelievable caution is said to be a response to all that wariness and exhaustion. Itsis often maddening, but it answers real popular fears.
There are very big questions hovering over all this. One is about Starmer, Rachel Reeves, their inner circle, and what will happen to their currently all-consuming caution. Here, the New Labour years offer instructive stories. Gordon Brown eventuallyabout not winning support for a more radical vision.
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