Labour’s big majority is fragile and it has weak mandate for change, says report

Exclusive: Election strategy of ‘not being the Tories’ is a time bomb, says Labour-linked thinktank Compass

Keir Starmer’s focus on winning over voters from the centre-right has delivered Labour a large but fundamentally shallow electoral win and a weak mandate to deliver real change, a report from a Labour-linked thinktank has warned.

The report by Compass, titled Thin Ice, argues that Labour should be less worried about losing 2024 voters to Reform UK and the Conservatives than to the Liberal Democrats and Greens, arguing this is the greater electoral risk.