Starmer, a former senior prosecutor, has made repeatedly clear that he is not in favor of changing the law to decriminalize drugs.
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I would really like to see some meaningful changes from Labour on this issue, when you compare to the UK to the US and EU, we are too far behind. Pride and Prejudice is still too strong in the political class of the 2 main parties.
A lot of the working class are very socially right wing (as demonstrated by the “red wall” voting Tory over Brexit), and Labour are trying to win them back by abandoning the left of the party in favour of being “less right wing than the Tories”. Decriminalising drugs would turn off a lot of those voters so it’s never going to happen. This country’s voter base is still largely conservative, at least on social issues, and that isn’t going to change overnight. The working class are more likely to be economically left wing (traditional labour trade unionist), but Labour has largely abandoned that as well in favour of being “pro-business”.