Labour will spend 2025 doing what it loves: fighting itself

By Duncan Robinson, Political editor and Bagehot columnist, The Economist

The Labour Party hates two things, runs the old joke: getting its own way, and each other. In 2025, Sir Keir Starmer’s government may have a majority of 154 in the House of Commons; it may sit atop the world’s least constrained executive; it may have four clear years to bend the country to its will. Is it happy? Not really. Labour will spend 2025 fighting itself.