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FILE - In this Sunday March 22, 2020 file photo British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during his daily COVID 19 coronavirus press briefing to announce new measures to limit the spread of the virus, at Downing Street in London. The British prime minister’s office says Boris Johnson will return to work Monday April 27, 2020, two weeks after he was discharged from a London hospital where he was treated for the new coronavirus. (Ian Vogler / Pool via AP, File)

Democrats Should Worry about British Labour’s Collapse

By John Judis | May 8, 2021 9:29 p.m.

In December 2019, the British Labour Party suffered its worst defeat since 1935. Last Thursday, with a spate of local races and a parliamentary bye-election as the result of a resignation, Labour under its new leader Keir Starmer had a chance to redeem itself. But Labour lost the bye-election in Hartlepool decisively and seems to have been drubbed in local elections outside of London and university towns. These sorry results suggest that Labour may in for a long-term decline similar to that which it endured after Margaret Thatcher and the Tories’ victory in 1979.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - FEBRUARY 21, 2019 : British Labour leader and Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn is talking to media at the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarters on February 21, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's Brexit team just met the European Chief Negotiator for the United Kingdom Exiting the European Union Michel Barnier. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Labour Party Will Back New Referendum To ‘Prevent A Damaging Tory Brexit’

By RAF CASERT and Lorne Cook | February 25, 2019 1:06 p.m.