the i
3 August 2024
Blackouts, strikes and angry pensioners – Labour faces a winter of discontent
Luke Tryl, executive director of More in Common, said: “I think the challenge is this – voters are definitely willing to give Labour the benefit of the doubt, and tend to say they have one to two years to improve things.
“But they are also desperately impatient to see change because they are so frustrated with broken Britain.
“If industrial action makes that worse, particularly on the NHS which is the top area the public say they will judge Labour’s success, I think it could get tricky quite quickly, as we have a very volatile electorate, much less willing to stick with parties through good and bad. The era of assuming parties will get two terms if they got a landslide is over.”
