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Why can’t Starmer take the fight to Farage?

Why can’t Starmer take the fight to Farage?

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May 05, 2025
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If, like me, you lived through Brexit, Trump Mark I, and Truss, and want to stop the radical right returning under Nigel Farage, you have every right to be dispirited.

In Canada and Australia, the centre-left hammered their Trump-like opponents. But in Britain Keir Starmer did not even put up a fight.

What on earth was he thinking? Why does he neglect the…

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