Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

One year in, Labour has a surprising amount to celebrate. But you wouldn’t know it

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Rohan McWilliam, Professor of Modern British History, Anglia Ruskin University

In the build-up to the 2024 election, Keir Starmer worked hard to show that his party could run Britain better than the Tories. He promised his government would offer stability after years of chaos – but also change. He stood for honesty but also a technocratic approach that resisted the easy answers of the populist right. The grown ups would be back in charge.

A year on, as he marks his first year in office, we might ask: how much difference did Labour’s 2024 election win make in the longer trajectory of British life? Are historians in future likely to say (as they often do about the…

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