Party’s strategist already planning how to secure second term, bolstered by former MP’s appointment to thinktank
Keir Starmer has had a slick start in his first days in government but his team has already started putting structures in place to win a second term.Keir Starmer has had a slick start in his first days in government but his team has already started putting structures in place to win a second term.
Ashworth, who lost his Leicester South seat to a pro-Gaza independent candidate, said his role would partly be looking ahead to the next four to five years. “I’ll leave others to judge, but I would have thought that the signal that goes out from my appointment is that I am a very political figure who has worked closely with Keir and his team. I think that in itself signifies the importance of the organisation to the government. Also how people want the organisation to be playing a highly, highly political role thinking about the next general election campaign.
However, some within Labour said the party was “very conscious of the likely clash between politics and policy”, and aware of the need to win over voters regardless of how difficult policies may be to deliver. One Labour source said Gray was already rubbing some of the political operatives in Starmer’s team up the wrong way as she appeared to be back in her comfort zone of letting the civil service be in the driving seat.
Once the king’s speech is out of the way, attention will turn to Reeves’s first budget and the need for a spending review before the end of the year, as well as dealing with the various immediate problems from prisons to the NHS – and the potential for backbench unhappiness over the party’s refusal to scrap the two-child benefit limit.
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