Moving to the center can be costly for left-wing parties
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/05/06/moving-to-the-center-can-be-costly-for-left-wing-parties
Prominent Social Democrats touted moderation as a successful electoral strategy in the 1990s. In the run-up to the 2015 British general elections and other elections in Europe, Labour and other European social democratic parties should understand that moderation also carries electoral and organizational costs. Source: The Washington Post