How does the British Labour Party regain power?

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Thinking about it, the Conservative governments of the interwar years really are by far the best analogy for the Conservative governments of the last eleven years, right down to Cameron/May/Johnson being s*** versions of Baldwin/Chamberlain/Churchill.

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So who is Attlee (even a rubbish version) going to be in this analogy?

Tough one. I guess John Healey fits the bill of an older, long-serving MP with government experience and a generally low-key personal style whom the factions could probably unite around as a stop gap… but obviously he’s not going to become leader. Of course, Starmer himself is a barrister (like Attlee) with a somewhat low-key personal style, so it could be him if he becomes PM in 2023-4, but I very much doubt he’ll ever win an Attlee style landslide (and he’s become very polarising to a degree that Attlee wasn’t, even if Attlee was never that popular when he was Labour leader).