Keir Starmer has praised Margaret Thatcher for effecting “meaningful change” in Britain in an article directly appealing to Conservative voters to switch to Labour.
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the Labour leader said Thatcher had “set loose our natural entrepreneurialism” during her time as prime minister.
“Across Britain, there are people who feel disillusioned, frustrated, angry, worried. Many of them have always voted Conservative but feel that their party has left them,” he said. “I understand that. I saw that with my own party and acted to fix it. But I also understand that many will still be uncertain about Labour. I ask them to take a look at us again.”
In the article, Starmer pointed to Labour prime ministers of the past – Tony Blair and Clement Attleee – as well as Thatcher, as examples of how politicians can effect meaningful change.
It’s called tactical voting in everyone knows about it it’s not some secret conspiracy
Tactical voting is what people do when they think a party is a lesser evil than another party. Having labour stand up and basically say “vote for Labour, we’re not Tories… but don’t worry Tories we will be continuing your policies” does not inspire a strong tactical voting block. As absurd and doomed as our 2 party voting system already is.