Labour leader says former PM ‘set loose our natural entrepreneurialism’ in appeal to Tory voters to back him

Keir Starmer has praised Margaret Thatcher for effecting “meaningful change” in Britain in an article directly appealing to Conservative voters to switch to Labour.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the Labour leader said Thatcher had “set loose our natural entrepreneurialism” during her time as prime minister.

“Across Britain, there are people who feel disillusioned, frustrated, angry, worried. Many of them have always voted Conservative but feel that their party has left them,” he said. “I understand that. I saw that with my own party and acted to fix it. But I also understand that many will still be uncertain about Labour. I ask them to take a look at us again.”

In the article, Starmer pointed to Labour prime ministers of the past – Tony Blair and Clement Attleee – as well as Thatcher, as examples of how politicians can effect meaningful change.

    • Echo Dot
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      1 year ago

      I genuinely think it’s more a matter of it being a good idea to just garner as many votes as possible and if that means trying to appeal to the opposition then so be it.

      Anyway at this point it’s not like we have any better options.

      • mayooooo@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        But if you become your opposition in order to do it you failed. But yeah, you don’t have options. It’s the same thing globally now, until we start making pez dispensers from the rich all we can have is full on fascism or tory-light, except translated to the local version.

        Starmer is still a tory plant, I bet you in a couple of years you get proof of this