{"id":469,"date":"2026-06-23T17:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:08:13","slug":"the-fall-of-britains-prime-minister-is-a-warning-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"The fall of Britain\u2019s prime minister is a warning for America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Since Donald Trump\u2019s 2024 victory, the Democratic Party has been embroiled in a vicious internal conversation over \u201cmoderation.\u201d One camp argues that the party has moved too far to the left on cultural issues, particularly immigration and trans rights, and that it needs to tack to the center in order to secure its long-term political future. Their opponents argue that such a strategy will alienate core Democratic voters without making significant inroads among the MAGA faithful.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=467\">The Supreme Court is about to decide if children still have free speech rights<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This week, the anti-moderation camp has been claiming vindication \u2014 citing not developments in the US, but the resignation of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Starmer has, more than any other center-left politician around the world, actually executed on what the pro-moderation camp proposes \u2014 moving the Labour Party to the center on social issues, particularly immigration. Yet Starmer\u2019s numbers collapsed, and Labour experienced a series of humiliating electoral defeats in special and local elections, while the far right and far left both surged. For the anti-moderates, the lesson is straightforward: a Democratic party that does something similar is due to defeat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cStarmer\u2019s resignation is a warning,\u201d Adam Bonica, a political scientist at Stanford University, wrote this week. \u201cIn a moment like this, tacking right isn\u2019t the safe play, it\u2019s the thing that sinks you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The moderates, for their part, argue that this is a misread of the evidence: that Starmer actually won power in the first place due to moderate politics, and that his declining numbers after taking power have more to do with economic fundamentals than culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHis cultural moderation has been an asset to Labour in getting closer to where the mainstream of voters are,\u201d Claire Ainsley, a former Starmer adviser and current director of Project on the Center-Left Renewal at the Progressive Policy Institute, told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The evidence suggests both sides are overstating the case. His rise to power shows the potential upside of moderating; his downfall shows its risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Moderation can mitigate problems stemming from a perception that party is too extreme. But it doesn\u2019t always work the way supporters of moderation suggest, with calculated policy concessions on social issues like immigration automatically translating to increased support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In fact, said policy concessions can end up trapping you into a political no-man\u2019s land without a base of your own to lean on \u2014 unless paired with a clear affirmative vision of one\u2019s own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>When moderation helped Starmer<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After the UK\u2019s 2019 elections, the Labour Party was in the wilderness. Led by the hard-left socialist Jeremy Corbyn, the party suffered its worst performance in roughly 100 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This was not because the incumbent Conservatives were especially popular: Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a net approval rating of minus 12. But Corbyn was at negative 40; contemporary polls showed that he was seen  and many of his policies were believed to be unrealistic. Corbyn\u2019s long record of foreign policy radicalism, paired with scandals about antisemitism in the Labour ranks contributed to this perception.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>When Starmer won the Labour leadership contest in 2020, he pursued a strategy that the British political scientist Simon Griffiths described as \u201cdecontamination:\u201d a conscious effort to reposition Labour as a party within the UK political mainstream. He apologized for Corbyn\u2019s handling of antisemitism, endorsed an increase in defense spending, and began openly mocking his predecessor as out of touch with ordinary Britons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHe simply let it be known that the party had changed and was not the same kind of socialist party Corbyn had led,\u201d Griffiths writes in the paper, describing his strategy as \u201ca pursuit of ideological quietism to distance himself from Corbyn and reach out to more socially conservative voters who would be wary of this rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The initial results seemed to vindicate the approach. In the 2024 election, Labour won nearly two-thirds of the seats in the UK parliament, the third-largest majority in the party\u2019s (rather long) history. There\u2019s evidence that Starmer\u2019s moderation helped: Voters who switched from the Conservatives in 2019 to Labour in 2024 were vastly more likely to say the Labour Party respected people like them under Starmer rather than Corbyn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There are, however, two crucial caveats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>First, it\u2019s not obvious how important Starmer\u2019s relative moderation was in the ultimate outcome. The Conservative Party had been in power for 14 years at that point, and its reputation was in shambles. Data from YouGov, a leading UK pollster, showed that Labour supporters were overwhelmingly more likely to cite getting rid of the Tories rather than affirmatively backing Labour as the chief reason for their vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Second, there is little reason to believe that Starmer\u2019s moderation on <em>cultural issues specifically<\/em> played a decisive role. Neither immigration nor trans rights drove the perception that Corbyn was too radical; Starmer\u2019s \u201cdetoxification\u201d campaign focused on foreign and economic policy for a reason. YouGov\u2019s 2024 data shows that Labour voters\u2019 top issues were overwhelmingly economic (cost of living and healthcare).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Starmer, in short, likely benefitted at least somewhat from seeming more moderate than Corbyn. But that has much more to do with a broader, more ideological diffuse branding than his specific stance on immigration or trans rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>When moderation hurt Starmer<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Almost immediately after taking office, Starmer\u2019s numbers began to drop. Nearly everyone agrees on the reason: he failed to deliver the substantive quality-of-life improvements he promised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been no respite on the cost of living, with particularly food and energy inflation remaining high, while the NHS [National Health Service] and public services have not really improved,\u201d YouGov\u2019s Dylan Difford wrote this week. Labour \u201chas ignored that many of its most glaring issues are the complaints common across all of their losses \u2014 the cost of living, public services, feelings of a lack of delivery and change \u2014 the key issues that helped Labour into power in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The question, however, is whether his tack to the center on cultural issues mitigated the fall out of these problems \u2014 or exacerbated it. The best evidence suggests the latter, particularly when it comes to immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=465\">What happens when it breaks 100 degrees in Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In the summer of 2025, Starmer gave a high-profile speech outlining his new aggressive approach to immigration. Arguing that mass cultural change was turning Britain into an \u201cisland of strangers,\u201d he announced an intention to significantly cut the number of legal immigrants entering in the UK. Harsh policies, including new limitations on foreign student admissions and a crackdown on asylum rights, delivered the promised cuts: By May 2026, net migration had fallen to the lowest number since the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Yet Starmer\u2019s numbers continued to fall. Reform UK \u2014 an extreme anti-immigration party \u2014 surged, becoming the most popular party in the country and the odds-on favorite in the 2029 election. Disillusioned left-wing voters defected en masse to the Green Party, a former fringe party that took an unapologetically pro-immigration stance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t win back those voters that left for reform \u2014 and they alienated progressives,\u201d Tarik Abou-Chadi, a political scientist at Oxford who studies European left-wing parties, told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Abou-Chadi, and many others in his field, find that this is a rather common occurrence in European politics. On average, center-left parties who tack to the right on immigration do not tend to win over voters who had previously supported far-right parties. They do, however, tend to lose voters to left-wing parties who have more to offer the cultural left.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There is unusually good evidence that Starmer\u2019s positioning on immigration hurt him in precisely this fashion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In a recent study, a group of eight researchers measured how a group of voters\u2019 attitudes towards Labour changed after the \u201cIsland of Strangers\u201d speech. They found that the speech had some of the intended effect: Voters perceived Labour to be tougher on immigration after the speech than they did before. However, that perception didn\u2019t help the party electorally \u2014 and in fact likely hurt it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The speech \u201cdecreased voting intentions for Labour by 1.2 percentage-points and resulted in a 3.9 percentage-point haemorrhage in support from Labour\u2019s own former voters without attracting any new supporters,\u201d the authors conclude.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>The lessons for the US<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s tempting to conclude that Starmer is a slam-dunk case against the \u201cDemocrats need to moderate\u201d position in the United States. I think this is directionally correct, but requires a bit more nuance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The US and UK political contexts are importantly different. The UK system allows for third parties to run and succeed: not just Reform and the Greens, but also the center-left Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National Party, and the new radical right faction Restore Britain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In such a system, voters dissatisfied with Labour from the left have options. Left-wing Americans have no such viable option; they either vote for whoever the Democrats nominate or throw their vote away and de facto help the GOP. This makes it less likely that tacking to the center could cost Democrats a huge chunk of their base in the way that it has Labour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Moreover, the American system gives individual legislators a lot more autonomy than the UK\u2019s disciplined parliamentary system. That means that individual legislators have more room to create individual brands that might benefit from ideological moderation \u2014 like Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine or Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in her conservative Washington district.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The most relevant American lesson from the Starmer experience is thus not that moderation is always and forever politically ineffective. It\u2019s that successful moderation is much more complicated than simply picking the positions that appeal most to the median voter and making them your own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>When Starmer\u2019s moderation worked, it wasn\u2019t because he became identified with a specific set of moderate policy proposals. Rather, it was that he cultivated a perception, an ethos, a <em>vibe<\/em> that Labour was no longer the same party it was under Corbyn. He and his team figured out that the median voter thought Labour was out of touch, and took highly visible actions to correct that perception.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But this didn\u2019t work as a governing approach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Starmer\u2019s focus on looking for poll-tested cultural policies designed to win over voters lost to Reform was premised on a myth \u2014 that large numbers of far-right voters were open to voting for the center-left. Moreover, it necessarily meant compromising one\u2019s own image in ways that made him seem both inauthentic and unprincipled, as if Labour under Starmer were trying to be something it obviously wasn\u2019t and couldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Those changes might have been acceptable if there was a new political identity to replace them. But Starmer also struggled to articulate a new North Star for the party, and for his personal brand of politics, that could attract a meaningful and enthusiastic base of support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cPositioning himself as the custodian of a phantom center, Mr. Starmer treated most Labour supporters with contempt, as a partisan inconvenience and an obstacle to his project of national renewal,\u201d the British journalist Samuel Earle wrote in the New York Times in May. \u201cYet he has also seemed too nervous to outline what that project might be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This might be the most salient lesson for American politics: that whatever one\u2019s ultimate position is, be it left or center, compromising one\u2019s own core identity is almost certainly a losing strategy. Political parties need affirmative visions that both animate their core supporters and create a clear sense of what they are and what they stand for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Moderate politics can provide that vision: Both Bill Clinton and Tony Blair had versions of it in the 1990s. 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