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What do you think Starmer's Labour will deliver once in power? I tend to think he'll do as he says, and we'll have, at best, end stage Blairite or Coalition policies.
One (smallish and watered-down, but tangible) thing is the strengthening of workers' rights - inter alia, protection from unfair dismissal from day one of employment.
When I started work, you had to be employed for two years to have that sort of basic right. The 1997 Labour government reduced the qualifying period to one year in 1999, the Cameron/LibDem coalition put it right back up to two years from 2012.
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I was indeed of voting age in 1992.
Starmer has spent a lot of time getting the right wing press on-side; think pieces for the Mail, courting Murdoch etc None of them have had a sustained attack at Starmer, as he's generally promising to deliver what their after. At this stage if feels more like a coronation, rather than an election.
As for the last sentence, it feels a bit football politics - do anything to get the red team over the line, regardless of what they stand for.
What do you think Starmer's Labour will deliver once in power? I tend to think he'll do as he says, and we'll have, at best, end stage Blairite or Coalition policies.