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Expert analysis on the election pledges made by Labour and the Conservatives
National World - LocalTV
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21/05/2024
Dr Steve McCabe with insight on the recent pledges made by Sir Kier Starmer and Rishi Sunak.
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Well, the view is that they're not exactly particularly ambitious.
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There's nothing that would say that this is about a radical and socialist Labour government.
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And indeed, the criticism of Stalmer is that compared to when he became leader in the aftermath
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of the election in 2019, the December election, so of course this was very early on in 2020,
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and of course we're then into the midst of the pandemic, his promises then was essentially
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to very largely to continue the radical policies that had been set out by a certain Jeremy
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Corbyn.
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And of course, he is no longer a member of the Labour Party and won't be allowed to stand
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at the next election.
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So I think what we've got here is a combination of distancing yourself from some of the promises
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that got him into power in the first place, or sort of become leader of the Labour Party.
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And as of course, the prospect of sort of power becomes even closer, is not to sort
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of to over promise and then be accused of under delivering.
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So I suspect that there's a lot of sort of careful management going on here.
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What I would say is that sort of whoever wins the next election is going to be faced with,
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I suspect, the sort of the greatest set of economic and social challenges for a generation.
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Whoever's elected later on this year, five years down the line, ending upon the majority,
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it could be sort of even sooner than that if they sort of get a much slimmer majority,
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which of course is the objective of the Conservative Party.
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They will then have to face the sort of the voters and to sort of to account for their
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actions.
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And if people don't feel better, they're very keen to sort of to try something else.
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So the difficulty is that politics aside, because it's always about politics, people
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do want change and they want to feel better.
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So I suspect that if Keir Starmer is indeed the sort of the next prime minister by the
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end of this year, he's got a lot of work to do to sort of to make people feel, as I say,
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that their prospects are going to improve in the next five years.
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