Ambitious targets to improve voters’ lives come amid plunging approval ratings for government and loss of transport secretary
Keir Starmer will pledge this week to undertake the most ambitious programme for government “in a generation”, as he sets out new targets to refocus his premiership amid falling approval ratings and the first resignation from his cabinet.
“This plan for change is the most ambitious, yet honest, programme for government in a generation,” Starmer said. “Mission-led government does not mean picking milestones because they are easy or will happen anyway. It means relentlessly driving real improvements in the lives of working people. However, it is understood that Starmer will not include a target for reducing net migration, despite his surprise press conference last week in which he
This week’s strategy is the latest sign of the sweeping influence now enjoyed by Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney. He was put in place in the wake of concerns that a lack of political direction had contributed to the missteps since Labour’s landslide election winin July.
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