On Saturday, it was confirmed that Street had beaten his Labour adversary, Liam Byrne, and been elected for the second time. The fact that Labour’s decline echoes the fate of social-democratic parties across Europe only confirms that we are talking about something genuinely era-defining. Labour and the left, by contrast, have always been faced with the necessity of finding and building their own political foundations. But in too many places, Labour is dangerously close to being a 20th-century party adrift in the 21st. Since the 2016 referendum, there has been an increasingly judgmental, all-or-nothing aspect to the politics of the left.

Source: The Guardian May 09, 2021 15:10 UTC