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Starmer's CHANGE: is a threat, promise, or a command?
MATT KERR is troubled by Labour election slogan and the old adage it invokes that ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’

THE NEWS was out, the leaks set, and the tell-tale appearance of the logo-free lectern in the middle of the road in Downing Street was the final, undeniable, sign that we were going to be asked to vote for another government.

I listened to Mr Sunak, but I’ll confess that I really didn’t hear very much; remarkable only in that it somehow managed to rework John Major’s old campaign slogan “yes it hurt, yes it worked” into something even more agonisingly dull and ghoulish.

It was a cruel irony that those of us remote from the whole farce could hear every word on the television or radio, while those in Downing Street were spared the content.

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