If he fails to get a grip on his government, Starmer’s five missions will become impossible
The IndependentFor a party which won a stonking majority of 174 only two months ago, Labour’s annual conference starting this weekend would normally be a celebration. In theory, Labour should be able to set a positive media agenda at the conference but it now needs to move on from revelations about Starmer’s £107,000 of freebies since 2019 and infighting among Downing Street aides, both of which have distracted the government. Despite a solid list of early announcements, there hasn’t been enough in the government’s “first 100 days” plan about Starmer’s five missions and the change they will bring. Some in Team Starmer now admit privately that, instead of winning a relatively easy argument that public services were hollowed out by the Tories, the government was too keen to copy George Osborne’s crude but successful “blame Labour” game in 2010. The political damage from the pensioners’ winter fuel allowance wasn’t worth the candle, showing there’s too much “Treasury think” and not enough of the cross-departmental mission-led government Starmer wanted.
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