Labour leader ‘promised not to raise taxes’, Guardian reporter says

Three days before the second round of legislative elections in France, British people vote for their general elections in the United Kingdom, Thursday, July 4. Across the Channel, the defeat is shaping up to be historic for the Conservatives, worn out by 14 years in power and cannibalized by Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK party, which is in full swing. It is the Labour Party, favored by the voting system, who will most certainly win by a wide margin. They are capitalizing on the massive rejection of the Conservatives and the worrying state of the country. “

The Conservatives are paying the price for several years of austerity at the very beginning of their mandate, recognizes Jon Henley, Europe correspondent for the British daily The Guardian. It’s a party that’s drained of ideas, but also drained of talent. They promised that Brexit would be the solution, would solve all of Britain’s problems, it hasn’t been.”

If the British seem to want to opt for alternation, there is not necessarily enthusiasm for Labour either. “Keir Starmer, leader of the British Labour Party, is a former lawyer, former attorney general. He is a very honest person, but he does not have much charisma, Jon Henley continues. Using a metaphor from cricket, we can say that he is ‘a self pair of hands’, someone serious who will not drop the ball.” His program on the economy is not very far from that of the conservatives in some respects. “He made a lot of promises. Keir Starmer promised not to raise taxes. He promised Britain would not go into debt again.” So many statements intended to reassure the most conservative wing of the Labour Party.

Unlike in France, in the United Kingdom, for these legislative elections, it is a single-round, single-member constituency vote. The candidate who comes first in number of votes is simply elected to the House of Commons.