Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a Movember breakfast reception at 10 Downing Street in London, November 29, 2024
SIR KEIR STARMER was told today his low popularity will not be salvaged by meaningless relaunches and rebrands as he prepares “a new phase" for his government this week.
The Prime Minister will set out a plan for change with milestones set in key policy areas to achieve the targets laid out in Labour’s manifesto, Downing Street said today.
He will unveil the markers for his “missions” that Number 10 says will allow the public to hold Sir Keir and his team to account on their promises.
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP