Keir Starmer’s victory brings a heavy responsibility to restore trust in UK politics
The tectonic plates of British politics have shifted as they do only once every couple of decades. In one parliamentary term, Labour has gone from defeated hard-left rump to landslide centre-left victor. Its breakthrough reflects, in truth, more a humiliating rebuke across the UK of the Conservatives’ 14 years in power than an enthusiastic embrace of Sir Keir Starmer’s party.
The new government’s inheritance is trickier than Blair’s, or that of the post-financial crisis Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in 2010. The squeeze on public finances is more vicious, the tax burden and borrowing far higher, public services in far worse shape. Labour also confronts a more fickle and less tribal electorate, more adept at tactical voting. A government with a 170-plus majority could once be confident of more than one term in office.
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