{"id":76520,"date":"2024-07-05T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=76520"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:44:40","slug":"did-keir-starmer-really-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/05\/did-keir-starmer-really-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Keir Starmer really win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have published this video this morning. In it I argue that Labour might have won a massive majority but did Keir Starmer really win? His constituency data presents a very different view \u2013 as does a comparison with Jeremy Corbyn. He has delivered an unloved landslide majority to govern the country.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Did Keir Starmer really win?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6frR9MVngkU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is no audio version, as yet.<\/p>\n<p>The transcript is:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Did Keir Starmer really win this election? I just want to offer you some figures that suggest he shouldn't be quite as confident as he will appear to be on so many newspaper front pages on Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why? He didn't do so well in his own seat. He actually only got 18,884 votes for himself. In 2019, he got 36,641. His personal vote halved in this general election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The turnout in his constituency collapsed. It was 56,000 in 2019. It was 38,000 this time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That isn't the sign of a man who's really winning the confidence of the people who elected him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And let's compare him with his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Corbyn got 24,120 votes in this election. Stamer, just 18, 884. Who's the more popular? Well, on a poll, it would seem that Corbyn is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, is Starmer really the winner of this election, or is he, as Gary Gibbon on Channel 4 said, the leader of an unloved landslide party?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I fear he's the leader of the unloved, and that's going to show very quickly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have published this video this morning. In it I argue that Labour might have won a massive majority but did Keir Starmer really win?<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/07\/05\/did-keir-starmer-really-win\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76523,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76520\/revisions\/76523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}