SIR KEIR STARMER has a gloomy message for us all this week: Things will only get worse. Forget the D:Ream anthem of Labour’s 1997 victory, promising that things can only get better. This is more of a dirge to a difficult autumn ahead.
The Prime Minister is giving a speech tomorrow where he will tell the public that “change won’t happen overnight” and there are no “quick fixes”. He is aiming his address at voters. But I wonder if he is also worried that his own party needs a talking-to as well.
READ MORE ON LABOUR This autumn is going to be hard on Labour MPs who have not quite realised just how difficult life is going to be in government. If Starmer wants to get on with the business of fixing all the broken things he has identified, he needs to give his party a simple instruction: buckle up! The speech this week is all about buying Starmer time. The Prime Minister and his Chancellor, Rachel Reeves , have already got some space to try to get things straight by telling anyone who’ll listen that every single mess — possibly even the summer’s wash-out weather — is the Tories’ fault.
Most read in The Sun They’ve pointed with melodramatic surprise to black holes in the public finances that everyone already knew about. Tomorrow Starmer will also talk about a “societal black hole”. He wants to blame some of the recent rioters’ behaviour on the Conservatives, saying the violent thugs were “gaming” a system they thought would not lock them up because t.