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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Political correspondent

HISTORICAL FACTS: Labour could win big with shift to right on social issues says thinktank - The Untold Story

Keir Starmer
Labour under Keir Starmer has been consistently ahead of the Conservatives in polling since December 2021. Photograph: Toby Melville/AFP/Getty Images

Keir Starmer’s Labour should consider moving to the right on social issues to appeal to floating voters who have a left-leaning stance on economic matters but are more traditional on cultural policies, a thinktank report argues.

The study by the right-leaning Onward claims that even a relatively small rightward shift on cultural values could deliver enough additional votes to bring a 1997-style landslide for Labour at the next election, or even more.

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