Keir Starmer is one of Labour's most right-wing MPs, according to a survey of the political positions of MPs from each major party.
Research by Chris Hanretty, a political science professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, found that the prime minister is less left-wing than almost all of her 401 Labor colleagues.
The survey also found Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch to the right of her party, scoring closer to UK Reform leader Nigel Farage on her political positions than most of her party. It became clear that there was.
Hanretty told the Times: “Before Brexit, I would have said that it was normal for the Prime Minister to be in a more central position than most members of his party. [David] Prime Minister Cameron was on the left of the Conservative Party. [Tony] Mr Blair was on the right wing of the Labor Party. ”
Mr Hanretty and his team compiled the results by comparing 1,006 local MPs and asking them how they stacked up against party leaders. They are Same study last yearHowever, this is the first time that the political opinions of most incumbent members have been charted in this way, given that more than half were elected for the first time this year.
Members of Congress are rated on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being the most left-wing and 100 being the most right-wing. Independent members are not included.
Labour's Nadia Whittome and Diane Abbott were the most left-wing MPs of the major parties, scoring 4 points, while Reform UK's Rupert Lowe and Tory's Suella Braverman were the furthest to the right, with 95 points. It was determined that
Starmer's rating of 48 puts him roughly in the middle of the House of Commons, but to the right of almost his entire party.
He is slightly more to the right than in the same survey last year, which shows that the government has made a number of mistakes in the first place, including exempting millions of pensioners from winter fuel payments and denying compensation to Waspi women. This may reflect decisions taken over the last few months.
Thanks to Labor's landslide victory in the election and the significant gains of the Liberal Democratic Party, which is considered almost as left-wing as Labor, Parliament as a whole has shifted decisively to the left since the same period last year. Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, is seen as being much more left-wing than Starmer, with a rating of 37.
With 88 points, Mr Badenoch is considered one of the most right-wing MPs in parliament, to the right of most of his Conservative colleagues and just two points to the left of Mr Farage. Her predecessor, Rishi Sunak, sits in the center of the party with an approval rating of 77.
Mr Badenoch, who has held relatively few policy positions since becoming opposition leader, said the previous Conservative government “spoke the right but ruled the left”. She has praised Argentina's radical right-wing president Javier Millay and repeatedly criticized British institutions as an example of what she considers a “woke” ideology.
But she has publicly debated reformers in recent days, accusing the opposition of disguising party membership numbers and appealing to GB News to stop giving Mr Farage too much airtime. It is reported that.
“Judgements are always personal, but these measures should yield similar results if we were to repeat the same exercise tomorrow,” Hanretty said.
