UK Labour leader gaining as ‘paralyzed’ Tories fall: British scholar
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s chance to become the next British Prime Minister is rising amid the “paralyzed” Conservative government’s failure to address the country’s problems, says a scholar in London.
Dr. Rodney Shakespeare, an economist and university professor, made the remarks while discussing Corbyn’s New Year message.
The main opposition leader said his party was going to take “new center ground” in the UK politics because the Conservative Party was “finished.”
Doubling down on Corbyn’s point, Shakespeare said the outcome of the snap general election in June showed how Labour was gaining.
When she called for early elections, Prime Minister Theresa May thought she would score an easy win over Corbyn but ended up losing her parliamentary majority. Consequently she was forced to strike an embarrassing deal with the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to save her throne.
“It became clear in the UK general election that the Conservative Party does not have a raft of policy which would address the increasingly serious economic problems of the country,” Shakespeare told Press TV on Sunday.
The analyst noted that the gap between rich and poor had grown even deeper under the Tory government while unemployment was also on the rise due to May’s inability to create reliable jobs.
This has helped Corbyn to make a better case for his future government by laying out a comprehensive plan that would address people’s concerns like housing.
“The bottom-line amongst this is that Labour is claiming and probably has at least the elements of major new economic policy which will also address the shortage of jobs and rebuilding of British industries,” he explained.
Shakespeare said the Conservative government was essentially “paralyzed” and could no longer come up with solutions to people’s problems.
“I can see why he (Corbyn) is confident that he will replace conservatives not least because the conservatives no longer have anything to say top the bulk of the population of this country on the domestic issues,” the scholar concluded.
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