Peston: What Powell's victory says about Starmer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Lucy Powell's platform is that the first wave of Starmerism is bust, because it has been perceived as trying to out-Reform Reform - to be too tilted to the right on everything from immigration control to welfare changes.
45% : That's because his party showed a preference for someone he sacked from the cabinet having stood up for Labour MPs who rejected his welfare reforms.
43% : His decision to go the COP climate change conference in Brazil, the Chancellor's attack on the prosperity destruction wreaked by Brexit and the framing of the looming budget as requiring the wealthy to pay more tax, these are gestures of a new determination to directly confront Farage and Faragism, rather than let the national agenda be set by him, especially on immigration.

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