4 months, 2 weeks ago

Starmer’s first cabinet resignation will draw a line under Labour’s bumpy start

Keir Starmer’s government has reached another unwanted if inevitable milestone – its first cabinet resignation. Initially, Starmer’s instinct, influenced by the former senior civil servant Gray, was to let ministers “get on with it” in their departments. The new targets are also designed to sharpen the government’s communications – not before time, given Starmer’s and Labour’s plummeting opinion poll ratings. If it doesn’t work, the danger for Starmer is that he will head a one-term government and not get the chance to complete the “decade of renewal” he wants.

The Independent

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