{"id":85746,"date":"2025-09-09T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=85746"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:07:01","slug":"there-is-political-opportunity-on-the-left-at-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/09\/there-is-political-opportunity-on-the-left-at-present\/","title":{"rendered":"There is political opportunity on the left at present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/sep\/09\/how-keir-starmers-polling-became-one-of-the-worst-in-the-west-in-charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chart is in The Guardian<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-85743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1699-550x548.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1699-550x548.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1699-301x300.jpeg 301w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1699-768x765.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1699-402x400.jpeg 402w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1699.jpeg 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What it shows is that Labour is losing many more votes to left-wing parties than it is to right-wing parties, and yet, despite that fact, Labour is moving towards the right to try to win those voters who have gone in that direction, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Three things are clear. The first is that there can be no strategic thinking behind Labour's continuing move towards the right wing. This can only be explained by the ideological leaning of its leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Second, this shift is not to the liking of those who thought themselves to be Labour voters.<\/p>\n<p>Third, as most readers of this blog would agree, there is political opportunity on the left at present. I just hope it is taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chart is in The Guardian this morning: What it shows is that Labour is losing many more votes to left-wing parties than it is<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/09\/there-is-political-opportunity-on-the-left-at-present\/\"><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":[118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85746","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=85746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85747,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85746\/revisions\/85747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}