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Delia Lloyd's avatar

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Martin Prior's avatar

On Sharon Graham’s article about Labour needing to be bolder.

It will be very interesting to see how Labour positions itself as they head into their conference this week. To date, the strategy appears to be to sit tight, say very little and hope the Tories implode. Not a bad strategy but it only gets you so far.

At some point the voters are going to want to know what Labour stands for. What does it mean for taxes, spending and public services. We live in a world where money is scarce. This isn’t 1997. There really isn’t any money left.

So it will be down to choices and trade offs. This is all boring stuff for an electorate looking for hope and inspiration.

The real danger for Labour is that the silence turns people towards the populist messages of the emerging Tory campaign. In this vacuum, extremism can proposer.

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