"A key theme of the Global Progressive Action Conference is about how the Labour Party and its sister outfits around the world take on Reform UK and their equivalents. "This is the defining political choice of our times: a politics of predatory grievance, preying on the problems of working people against the politics of patriotic renewal," Sir Keir Starmer will claim."
"And it is this challenge that unites the two big things in politics in the last 48 hours. First there was the blizzard of headlines about the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham. Then, conveniently timed, the blizzard of headlines yesterday afternoon about the government's plans for compulsory digital ID. This, yes, is the daily din of Westminster, but there is a signal amid the noise."
"This, for so many Labour folk, is not merely the traditional political tussle with the party's oldest adversary, the Conservatives. Instead, it is an insurgency which utterly horrifies so many of them. It is Reform's recent rise - and the durability of its support, up to now at least - that has fast forwarded the collywobbles in a vast parliamentary Labour Party."
The prime minister will address a conference of centre-left leaders and urge parties to recognise where they have shied away from people's concerns. A key conference theme centers on how the Labour Party and sister parties should confront Reform UK and its equivalents. Sir Keir Starmer frames the choice as between a politics of predatory grievance and patriotic renewal. Recent headlines about Andy Burnham and government plans for compulsory digital ID reflect a party debating personnel, policy and ambition. Senior figures describe the situation as a generational challenge driven by Reform's rise and persistent criticism that the government's direction lacks definition.
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