Labour are on the right and the Tories are on the left

In the general population many more people are right-handed than left-handed which may explain why the political right are associated with strength and the left with weakness. But in a political context it is the parties of the left who have more strength given their association with populism and democracy. Democratic collectivism will always be more strong than concepts associated with the right such as social conservatism and religion.

Given the above it is inconsistent for the left (the Labour party in the UK) to be associated with the 'left' and they should be referred to as the right. The Labour party are correctly described as being on the right and the Tories on the left.