He increased taxes on private schools:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-private-schools-vat-policy-b2671720.html

He increased taxes on private jets :

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/budget-2024-private-jet-tax-rise-b2638927.html

He nationalized trains:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2025/oct/13/most-of-great-britains-major-rail-operators-are-back-in-public-hands-is-it-working

He passed a bill significantly increasing UK labor rights:

https://labourunions.org.uk/backthebill/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Rights_Act_2025

I think he should have been more agressive when it comes to private water nationalization. I think he should have banned gambling advertising. But it’s so sad people claimed he was right-wing.

  • icerunner_origin@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I note that this synopsis conveniently forgets the punitive treatment of disabled people by cutting disability benefits and support, the erosion of trans rights, imprisonment of grandmothers for peacefully protesting an active genocide and selling arms to a country engaged in genocide. So left wing. Radical. Wow.