The wilderness years: how Labour’s left survived to conquer Read moreYet the unforgiving standards by which he is judged are also applied to the Labour left as a whole. But once you appreciate the implacable hostility the Labour left arouses, it explains a lot of otherwise puzzling British political phenomena. Despite, or, rather, partly because of, all the panics about the Labour left, it has rarely been dominant in the party. Does it matter that so many people don’t want British politics to include a left of any significance? But if Britain could, somehow, finally, stop questioning whether the Labour left belongs in mainstream politics, it may even discover that the left has things to offer.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2019 06:00 UTC