Labour are going to win, and they'll have a large majority. But why, as a strategy for election, would you rest on your laurels especially when there's rumblings of losing votes due to their inaction on the Gaza question.

A good election tactic is to identify something that appeals to the hardcore of their voters and promise to change it. These might have potentially not voted or voted Green (or George Galloway 😩) but this way you might save their vote and win a better working majority rather than a Theresa May majority.

I don't think they'll do it because it sounds like a last minute election line precisely to appease these voters. If they had a thoroughly thought out timeline and action plan rather than just Labour will eat the rich, who's with me comrades? then fair enough, but I might have missed that.

Think about it the other way around, Tories looking to stave off election calamity and get their hardcore voter base to vote rather than not vote or vote Lib Dem (or Nigel Farrage): We will stop the boats, we will make criminals of people who don't have the means to look after themselves, we will give old people ever increasing sums of money as a thank you for their service during the decades of peace after WW2 where they gave nothing and took as much as they could amassing wealth beyond your wildest dreams. You wouldn't believe a word of that would you?