INTERVIEW | Paz Zárate: Keir Starmer connected with an electorate that has become impoverished post-Brexit
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International analyst Paz Zárate noted in El Diario de Cooperativa that Keir Starmer, who became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on Friday following the overwhelming victory of the Labour Party in the previous day’s elections, “has worked very hard to rebuild the party and offer an alternative, particularly a centrist one, different from Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader.”
She also emphasized that the politician “is a person who comes from humble beginnings, who knows poverty, who studied on scholarships, and connected with the electorate of a country that has become impoverished after Brexit (…) to the point that today 15% of the British population skips meals because they cannot afford food.”
She analyzed that the electoral outcome represents “the failure of the option presented by the hard right, and the triumph of Labour is a counterbalance,” comparing it to the fact that “in the United Kingdom, they are already moving away” from the rise of the far right currently occurring in European countries like France.
Paz Zárate
Senior Researcher, AthenaLab
July 5, 2024
Source: Radio Cooperativa
