Enrique Rubio

Liverpool (England), October 8 (EFE).- The Labor Party opens its most important annual congress this Sunday in Liverpool (northern England) held recently, with the clear possibility that this will be the last congress before returning to government. after thirteen years of traveling in the desert.

All polls give a strong advantage to the party led by Keir Starmer, although they show more conservative fatigue than any enthusiasm generated by opposition parties.

According to the poll model published by Sunday’s newspaper “The Observer”, if the election were held today, Labor would achieve a landslide victory comparable to that achieved by Tony Blair in 1997, with an absolute majority of almost two-thirds of Parliament. .

The extraordinary results achieved by Labor candidates this week in the seat of the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency in Scotland, which the party took from the independence supporters of the SNP, also contributed to this euphoric atmosphere.

However, knowing that any mistake could damage his aspirations, Starmer flooded the British media with interviews calling on the party to distrust itself and fight for every vote ahead of the 2024 election.

“I would be surprised if Tory voters think the current government has done a good job. I think (the election) will address the fact that Tory voters will stay at home, so Labor is pushing, we can get it done.” Rachel Wise, a party councilor in the English city of Stockport, told EFE.

Since he was elected Labor leader in 2020, Starmer set out a roadmap that he says he has followed closely: first, rebuilding a party in record time after the crushing election defeat suffered by the now-ousted Jeremy Corbyn; second, it shows the “incompetence” of conservatives; and third, conveying his proposals to voters.

It is at this congress that Labor is expected to begin outlining its plans for government, although Starmer has announced that details will only be communicated closer to the election.

It is here that Starmer faces the greatest doubts, often accused of hiding his cards and playing political opportunism.

Labor appears to have decided to contest the election on economic grounds, which traditionally benefit the Conservative Party.

“Britain needs three things: growth, growth and growth,” Starmer declared this Saturday at an event before the Liverpool congress.

His “number two”, Angela Rayner, the party’s left-wing bannerman, took over the baton today in her opening speech to the Labor conference and positioned workers’ rights and social housing as the two axes around which political action will be structured. The ruling Labor Party.

He announced that in his first hundred days the Labor Party Executive would legislate to “restore workers’ rights” and in the same way they would act against harmful contracts and strengthen the role of trade unions.

“The Labor government took me from the council to Parliament,” he said, before confirming that it would deliver “the biggest push towards social and affordable housing in a generation” and calling the land ownership system “medieval.” in England .

“Labor is the party of homeowners,” he shouted to applause from members who made the party one of their favorites.

Indirectly, the situation in Palestine and Israel was also planned at the congress.

Jack Thomas, a pro-Palestinian activist and former Labor Party activist, distributed leaflets at the entrance to the M&S Bank Arena, where the conference was being held.

And he did not escape criticism of Starmer, who actually excluded his predecessor Corbyn from the parliamentary group because of his alleged anti-Semitism.

“The current leadership is Zionist friendly, Starmer is a Zionist. “With Zionists at the helm of the Labor Party – and it is understood that all Conservatives are Zionists – we have no real democracy in Britain, because policies implemented by Labor Zionists or the Tories would be vetoed by Israel,” he told EFE. EFE

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