Politics are moderating in the U.K.

There is nothing moderate about the current government.

Glorianny

As the only extremism I've ever seen is from the right I suppose moderatism is better than nothing. Some of the policies at present in place still shock me like the Rwanda deportation policy and the inability to introduce a system that enables asylum seekers to work. Restriction on them working is still maintained in spite of much advice and requests from businesses for it to go.There's much more of course.

The idea that Corbyn was ever far left is laughable. He didn't propose or support any of the things the far left really want. He was just a bit further left than some.

Exactly this. The right is further from moderating than it has ever been and the left is so far to the centre there is no left any more.
How anyone can believe Johnson was extreme and Sunak is moderate is beyond me. This extreme conservative government scares me and it’s by no means a foregone conclusion they won’t get in again at the next election.

One person I do trust in the Labour Party is Rachel Reeves.
A young trader friend in the city says she passes the sniff test and he is one who couldn’t ever contemplate voting Labour, so she must have something about her.

I see the ECHR has taken labour off the “ watch list” because they are satisfied that Starmer has done enough to rid the party of the anti-semitism that was so rife.

More moves to moderation

I don’t know why but I watched Kier Starmers speech yesterday.
Ordinarily I would have switched off but there was something different there this time. I don’t know if it’s me or him. Either way, I listened.

Let's not get lost in waffling about 'moderation' which often helps the Tories. The key thing is to have a government that introduces practical measures to improve the lot of the people of the UK, especially the cost of living, public services, the NHS, etc. Whether the measures could be described as moderate or not is irrelevant - the question is do they work.

Not gentler - but pragmatic and moderate.

Me too GrannyGravy.

I think I am what is described as a centrist

I am politically homeless at the moment, I await the main parties manifesto’s with interest.

A return to gentler politics I must have slept through that parliament…

As the only extremism I've ever seen is from the right I suppose moderatism is better than nothing. Some of the policies at present in place still shock me like the Rwanda deportation policy and the inability to introduce a system that enables asylum seekers to work. Restriction on them working is still maintained in spite of much advice and requests from businesses for it to go.There's much more of course.

The idea that Corbyn was ever far left is laughable. He didn't propose or support any of the things the far left really want. He was just a bit further left than some.

Generally in agreement, although i would say the Conservative Party are considerably more to the right than they used to be, they are losing the middle ground atm.

Voters, that's a different matter. so many are totally disillusioned. Our local labour party are out and about door knocking to find out what people want locally and often people are grateful someone has bothered to actually ask, and will engage on local issues.
Nationally however, its a very different picture. People are fed up to the back teeth with politicians, although feel local MP is "OK enough" and this troubles me a great deal because we need participation in a democracy to make it work. there's a lot of work needing doing there.

I might add that Brexit was seen by The Economist as part of the populist extremism.

I'm glad if it has finished.

I think the British, overall, prefer more moderate and centrist politics than all this yelling and shouting from those with extreme views.👍

With Johnson and Corbyn effectively out of the loop now, hopefully common sense will return

I think this is true, big dominating names in politics is over for now and hopefully for the long term.
We need them to be quietly getting on with governing.

The electorate were very moderate in terms of Corbyn and tired of Johnson despite it being a time of national crisis so maybe the electorate is moderate. I generally think the electorate is centrist.

That may be so, but they’ll have to convince the electorate, who seem anything but moderate now.