Labour MP warns party of ‘uncanny’ parallels with Germany’s defeated SPD
by Kiran Stacey Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6VSSY)
Exclusive: Jake Richards says government needs to focus on issues such as immigration and welfare to fight off Reform
Keir Starmer could be heading for the same fate as Olaf Scholz, the recently defeated German chancellor, unless his government is able to deliver on issues such as immigration and welfare, a Labour MP has warned.
Jake Richards, the MP for Rother Valley, said he had seen uncanny" parallels between Labour and Scholz's party during a recent fact-finding trip to Germany to study the rise of the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD).
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