A week after the Scottish and Welsh national elections and the English local council votes, the political state of the UK, as seen from Westminster, is one of near chaos, and a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer is now well-nigh certain.
In England, at least, it’s clear the party-political system has moved markedly to the right. While this is largely due to Reform’s success in recent years, it is also down to Labour vacating the left with the consequent lack, at least for now, of a socialist alternative.
Within the Labour Party, serious critiques of our current neoliberal economic model, and the era of runaway wealth it has created, are mostly lacking, bar a few notable exceptions from some of the 30 or so left-wing Labour MPs who have survived the expulsions and candidate selections of the past few years. Clive Lewis, for example, wrote a striking analysis of some of the problems facing the UK on X this week.
