Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty, holding baby Henry McGowan, 6 months, during their visit to Burnley Boys And Girls Club, Barden Playing Fields in Burnley, ahead of the start of the Conservative Party annual conference at Manchester Central, October 1, 2023
SOCIALISTS might roll their eyes at Rishi Sunak’s bid to rebrand himself as a man who wants to change Britain.
The calculation is familiar. People are sick of the way things are. They demonstrate it week in, week out in surveys and polls in which they express dissatisfaction with our politics and politicians.
So the way to win their vote is to present yourself as the change candidate. It might seem a difficult makeover for the richest MP in the House of Commons, who is the sitting prime minister and heads a party that has been in power for 13 years.
The New York mayoral candidate has electrified the US public with policies of social justice and his refusal to be cowed. We can follow his example here, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
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