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Bullies can sense weakness – which is why Labour must not shy away from taking on the global far right | Andy Beckett

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The rise of the far right is an awful but inescapable fact of modern politics.

From Margaret Thatcher to Kemi Badenoch , Tory leaders have echoed far right because they’ve seen it as an electoral threat or agreed with it on an issue.

For the centre left, and especially centre-left governments, it presents a more fundamental problem.

Centrists are meant to be against extremism, especially the kind of confrontational, simplistic and often impractical politics.

Starmer and key allies argue that delivery’ will undermine the appeal of rightwing populism.

From Brazil to the US , the world is littered with the failed promises of populist governments.

Yet given the far right’s increasing media influence, the bettering of millions of lives by the Starmer administration if it happens may be underreported and insufficiently noticed by voters.

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