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Who is Starmer's pledge breaking for?
The Labour leader's doublespeak is politics-as-normal, but it makes him untrustworthy to Labour voters and a sitting duck for Tory media
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DOES it matter Keir Starmer tore up the “10 pledges” that got him elected Labour leader? His centrist defenders say this is just grown-up politics-as-normal. It’s just some sad butthurt lefties moaning.

But this is precisely the problem: Starmer abandoning his pledges is politics-as-normal. But relentless Tory victories are also politics-as-normal.

Working people paying for every crisis is politics-as-normal.

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