A center-left group in the U.S. sees a valuable lesson in the landslide victory of Britain’s Labour Party after nearly 15 years in the political wilderness.

The centrist Democrat think tank Third Way argues in a memo obtained Friday by POLITICO that Labour’s sweeping win shows that “centrism wins elections” and can undercut right-wing populism by appealing to the broadest segment of the population with a credible platform.

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      3 months ago

      Tories have been winning for 14 years despite holding the power prior to elections

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        And royally fucking the country up unabashedly

        We have a mostly right wing press over here and the leftmost publication is the guardian which generally has a liberal-centrist bias. It’s taken the Tories getting to insanely ridiculous levels of incompetence for the general public to finally cotton on