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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Labour’s big majority is fragile and it has weak mandate for change, says report

Keir Starmer smiling while meeting staff
Keir Starmer and the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, meeting staff during a visit to Hitachi in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA/AFP/Getty Images

Keir Starmer’s focus on winning over voters from the centre-right has delivered Labour a large but fundamentally shallow electoral win and a weak mandate to deliver real change, a report from a Labour-linked thinktank has warned.

The report by Compass, titled Thin Ice, argues that Labour should be less worried about losing 2024 voters to Reform UK and the Conservatives than to the Liberal Democrats and Greens, arguing this is the greater electoral risk.

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