Labor is trying to make sure Sir Keir Starmer will not suffer the same fate as Nicola Sturgeon, sources revealed. The former First Minister of Scotland, Ms Sturgeon, resigned after a huge row over her controversial plans to allow anyone to legally change their sex without seeing a doctor first. A source warned of the problem Nicola Sturgeon faced: “By trying to do good for a very small minority group, you inadvertently offend a lot of women who feel their place in society is being eliminated.
“You have to balance the needs of different groups”.
They added to Nicola Sturgeon: “In many ways she was the most successful politician of our generation and yet she was overthrown by the GRA. [Gender Recognition Act].
“The public was in a different place than the politicians.”
The Westminster government vetoed Mrs Sturgeon’s controversial gender reform bill.
But the row has led Labor to assess how they will tackle the issue.
Sir Keir previously promised the LGBT community that he would take a similar approach to Ms Sturgeon.
But the policy can now be scrapped.
Labor MPs are concerned the party “needs to come up with an answer” to the trans question that “guarantees women’s rights”.
Labor is also trying to strengthen its stance on other social issues, such as immigration and climate change, to ensure their policies appeal to another key group of voters: those in the Red Wall.
The party must win back the Red Wall constituencies in order to stand a chance of winning the next election.
And a new poll suggests Labor still has a lot of work to do to convince Red Wall voters to rely specifically on immigration.
A survey conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies on March 7 into the voting intentions of Red Wall voters found that a whopping 34 percent of those polled said Labor is “most likely not trusted at all” on immigration and economics.
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Labor officials in Scotland are quietly optimistic they can pull away from the Scottish Nationalists as public anger grows over the SNP’s perceived inability to alleviate the cost of living crisis.
However, Scottish Labor MSP Jackie Baillie warned that the party’s “road back to power” will not be made overnight.
She said: “Every day more people in Scotland are listening to Labor and turning away from the SNP.
“Only Labor is talking about the priorities of the Scottish people – tackling the cost of living crisis, stimulating the economy to create new highly skilled jobs and tackling the crisis in the NHS.”