It’s all been a bit of a Downer Street
JUST 12 months ago Sir Keir Starmer stood proudly on the steps of Downing Street after securing a historic landslide.
He promised a new era of grown-up government, an end to knee-jerk politics that had bedevilled the defeated Tories.
Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria enter Downing St for the first timeHow hollow, as he marks his first anniversary at No10, those words now sound.
His landmark comes as he licks his wounds over his latest self-inflicted humiliation — his doomed efforts to curb Britain’s £300billion welfare addiction.
In the past year his government has executed more U-turns than a Grand Prix driver at Monaco.
The flip-flopping over the disastrous decision to strip some of the poorest pensioners of their winter fuel allowance and a national inquiry into grooming gangs have laid bare Labour’s lack of direction.
Sir Keir seems unable to grasp that the great power a landslide brings demands a set of clear, consistent policies and a remorseless drive to secure them.
What has become painfully clear is that Labour were woefully unprepared for the duty of running the country.
The party’s first weeks in office were marked by controversy over freebie Taylor Swift concert tickets and clothes for the PM.
To justify policies, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has repeatedly harped back to the £22billion “black hole” left by the Tories.
But they have splurged billions on pay rises to please their union paymasters and on far-off infrastructure projects.
Hardly a day goes by without Reeves appearing in another high-vis jacket and hard hat at a factory.
But instead of PR, her time would surely be better spent making hard-headed decisions about how to secure economic growth.
Labour have had wins on the international stage, even if Sir Keir was painfully out of the loop over the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear plants.
And NHS waiting lists are coming down.
They have also benefited from Tory disarray, but their failures to tackle issues such as migration have let Nigel Farage’s Reform surge in the polls.
The PM must quickly decide whether he should still pursue economic growth or bow to the hand-wringers in his party.
Even his most staunch supporters admit that former lawyer Sir Keir plays better with the judge than the jury.
He has never had a compelling enough story that would explain where his core values lie.
He needs to set out clearly what he believes and how he is going to achieve it.
Before the most important jury of all — the voters — make up their minds for good.
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