Our endorsement: Remove the Tories. Vote Labour. Vote tactically. | Election 2024 | New Statesman

Published 2024-06-27
Rishi Sunak and the conservatives have discredited themselves. Britain needs a Labour government.

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New Statesman Editor-in-Chief, Jason Cowley, joins Rachel Cunliffe and George Eaton to explain why we’re encouraging readers and listeners to vote Labour, or indeed to vote tactically in order to remove the Conservatives.

In 2019 the New Statesman refused to endorse Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. Jason and George explain what’s changed and why Keir Starmer should be the next prime minister.

As George Eaton, who wrote the first draft of the endorsement and also joins the podcast, puts it: “the precondition for a better Britain is the removal of the Conservatives from office.”

Read the New Statesman’s 2024 election endorsement here: www.newstatesman.com/new-statesman-view/2024/06/th…

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All Comments (21)
  • @ethan35387
    Lets not leave it to chance. Dont just assume labour will win. Everyone should vote the Tories out. Use your vote.
  • @asonofmre2
    My entire life I’ve had to vote tactically and I’m sick of it, the system has to change.
  • @neorich59
    Quite. I always voted for the Liberal Party/Lib Dems, up until 2010. Under FPTP, my vote has never counted. Since then, living in a Tory/Labour marginal, I've voted Labour. It's always been close here. This time? The Tories are toast!
  • @BoyeeSmudger
    If the tories find themselves in 4th place... 🎉
  • @richards9750
    Get the Tories out! They have broken every moral fibre of this Isle. I saw Royal Shrewsbury Hospital being investigated by Dispatches on Channel 4, and what the Tories have done to the NHS is reprehensible! I cried at multiple points. I advise anyone considering voting for the Tory Party to watch the documentary.
  • If you feel like a Labour and Tory vote is the same thing that's absolutely fair and I'm not going to argue otherwise. What I would suggest is that fully and completely ending the tories dismantles the entire 2 party system and yes that means labour will have a huge majority but it will also force so much pressure for electoral reform and for a upending of what has been 2 person pass the parcel which has been our status quo for generations. It's a chance for actual change. Reform voters, Lib Dems and Green all agree on electoral reform. Any of these parties becoming the next opposition over the tories fundementally changes the game. Don't just end the tories out of spite. do it to take the UK out of it's endless political rutt.
  • @glyngreen538
    I’m a lifelong Green voter but I’d happily tactical vote for Labour or Lib Dems this election to keep a Tory out. If a lot of us do we could even end up with Lib Dems as the official opposition which would do a lot more good for our politics and media discussions than having the Tories.
  • @32446
    I wouldn’t vote Tory or Labour if you paid me.
  • @letdownbaloon
    There's literally candidates standing down telling their area to vote reform. They know what's happening. Common sense politics. Vote Reform UK
  • Very good video. The people from The New Statesman have presented a good program during the Conservative government's term. 😊
  • @user-ry9uj4xl5i
    “We indorse Labour because we always have “. That’s why the country will always be in this position, a mess.
  • Vote either Labour--my preference--or Lib Dem whoever is most likely to defeat the Tories. At 82 I've never seen any Party so bad so destructive of our people our society our safety our Reputation in the world as this one kicked off by David Cameron. May under Cameron brought in the 'Hostile Environment' in 2012 hitting my now Chinese Partner so hard. She cared for an older extremelly ill Paranoid Schitzophrenic man 24/7 for near 14 years in his small flat without monies of any kind. She has taken insult verbal assault & her experience has damaged her health. My conservative Barrister friend reading of May's 680 negative changes in law & regulations for ALL newcomers said 'May has gone mad.' Other cases she told me of later are blood curling. This Government is evil by every & any measure you'd like to apply. And have led to Reform with a half of the Tories three-quarters of the way to a Far Right stance.
  • I really want to believe that Labour can address the myriad crises facing Britain - economic depression, soaring inequality, crumbling public services, rising corruption, ageing population, local government, social care and education in collapse, increasing polarisation and most importantly the climate catastrophe which is bearing down upon us with terrifying speed, but their entire campaign has been based on the principle that they will not make any meaningful changes and will only tinker around the edges in order to be seen as a safe pair of hands. If you look around the world, there are many countries with similar problems to Britian, who have had similar governments to the one we will no doubt get next week. In Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, America and many more countries, there have been centrist, cautious, unambitious, prevaricating governments in power who promise only superficial change and refuse to address the underlying causes of societies problems for fear of upsetting the establishment. Almost universally, people in these countries have turned to radical right wing populism in their disappointment. As the Tories collapse, the perfect environment exists for Reform to capture the right-wing of British politics as Le Pen has done in France. Labour is pinning everything on huge economic growth, which has been the Tory strategy for the past 14 years and has failed miserably and with Brexit and the world as it is today the conditions for such growth are decidedly worse than in 2010. In five years time they will be in for a very rude awakening indeed. Nothing Labour has said has made me believe that they make this country a better place, so I will be voting Green.
  • @IainFrame
    Of course the New Statesman will recommend the odd-on favourite, in order to get preferential relations with the new cabinet.