Europe’s far-right surge has a lesson for Labour: fix the NHS to see off Farage | Catherine De Vries

Europe’s far-right surge has a lesson for Labour: fix the NHS to see off Farage | Catherine De Vries

Our research shows how the far right exploits voter discontent with crumbling public services – and what Keir Starmer must do to stop it

The Labour party may have won a landslide election victory in the UK last month, but now comes the difficult and unforgiving business of governing, not helped by the discovery of a £22bn black hole in the public finances.

Significant voter discontent centred on the sorry state of hollowed-out public services, especially the NHS. With ever-longer waiting lists for hospital appointments, voters on both the left and right are hugely concerned about the health service. Nigel Farage, leader of the rightwing Reform UK, is ready to exploit any public discontent over the state of broken public services and has loudly spoken of his desire to win over Labour voters.

Catherine De Vries is Generali chair in European policies and professor at Bocconi University in Milan

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