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

Labour could win big with shift to right on social issues, says thinktank

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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