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Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during his visit to the Backstage Centre, Purfleet, for the launch of Labour's doorstep offer to voters ahead of the general election, May 16, 2024
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer offered tiny solutions to huge problems today as he outlined the baby steps the party will take in office to address Britain’s crisis.
Dubbed “six first steps,” the policies overlap heavily with the Tory agenda and show the Labour leader ever-more channelling Tony Blair, even down to putting the policies on a pledge card.
Sir Keir launched the priorities in Essex surrounded by the shadow cabinet and with sundry endorsements, including one from a Bullingdon Club friend of Foreign Secretary David Cameron.
STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course