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But it's both isn't it? Labour try and offer some stuff for those who are to the right of the members because that's where they're lacking support; however they don't try and change all of their policies, with the aim that when they're in power those same voters are convinced by the whole package and they get a further left policy platform than the Tories.
obviously when labour do it, they do so by reaching to the right, when Tories do it, they reach to the left...
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By enacting righter policies to convince them, and trying to keep any lefties on board by keeping those policies as palatable as possible. Although I also think it does actual work the other way to some extent when Rishi steals a load of labour policies and sells them to the right, although still manages to cut Tory donors in.