He may talk big but how will Starmer rebuild Britain if his party is plotting against him?
In his New Year message, prime minister Keir Starmer told us he will rebuild Britain, just as Labour did after World War Two.
He said the security of working people was his top priority – by which everybody who can’t get a job because of his Chancellor’s policies – or who are incapacitated by illness and/or disability – may conclude that he won’t be helping them at all, of course.
And in any case, Starmer has made many promises in the past and broken them with gay abandon. He’ll say anything if he thinks people are gullible enough to believe it.
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But he may not get the chance even to break this promise. As he has said, 2025 needs to be the year we all feel improvements in our living conditions. If we don’t, his own ministers may conspire to kick him out.
According to the BBC’s Chris Mason, Labour ministers are increasingly concerned that his government has made too many mistakes, lacklustre presentation and communication, particularly of difficult issues like the restriction of the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners, the refusal to pay compensation to the Waspi women, and the refusal to end the two-child benefit cap.
And with the ever-unpredictable Donald Trump retaking power in the United States, the PM who has already attracted the derogatory nickname ‘Never Here Keir’ will be once again dragged towards global – rather than domestic – events.
Remember: Labour may have won a landslide victory in last year’s general election, but it was with unusually shallow support – only one-fifth of the electorate voted for that party, meaning it may prove embarrassingly easy for other parties to shift Labour MPs out in a future poll. Labour MPs will be aware of that – and deeply concerned.
And when MPs get concerned about their future, they start asking whether their leader is up to scratch.
So while Starmer may want us all to think he is looking ahead, it seems that what he really needs to do is watch his back.
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How will Starmer rebuild Britain if his party is plotting against him?
He may talk big but how will Starmer rebuild Britain if his party is plotting against him?
In his New Year message, prime minister Keir Starmer told us he will rebuild Britain, just as Labour did after World War Two.
He said the security of working people was his top priority – by which everybody who can’t get a job because of his Chancellor’s policies – or who are incapacitated by illness and/or disability – may conclude that he won’t be helping them at all, of course.
And in any case, Starmer has made many promises in the past and broken them with gay abandon. He’ll say anything if he thinks people are gullible enough to believe it.
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But he may not get the chance even to break this promise. As he has said, 2025 needs to be the year we all feel improvements in our living conditions. If we don’t, his own ministers may conspire to kick him out.
According to the BBC’s Chris Mason, Labour ministers are increasingly concerned that his government has made too many mistakes, lacklustre presentation and communication, particularly of difficult issues like the restriction of the winter fuel payment from millions of pensioners, the refusal to pay compensation to the Waspi women, and the refusal to end the two-child benefit cap.
And with the ever-unpredictable Donald Trump retaking power in the United States, the PM who has already attracted the derogatory nickname ‘Never Here Keir’ will be once again dragged towards global – rather than domestic – events.
Remember: Labour may have won a landslide victory in last year’s general election, but it was with unusually shallow support – only one-fifth of the electorate voted for that party, meaning it may prove embarrassingly easy for other parties to shift Labour MPs out in a future poll. Labour MPs will be aware of that – and deeply concerned.
And when MPs get concerned about their future, they start asking whether their leader is up to scratch.
So while Starmer may want us all to think he is looking ahead, it seems that what he really needs to do is watch his back.
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