I wrote this a year and a half ago. Unsurprisingly, Labour has experienced the same electoral decline as other European social democratic parties because of this strategy. Yet, pundits still make the same lazy claims. Politicians live in their phantasm of the “doorstep.” As if research did not exist
Tarik Abou-Chadi
Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research
