WHEN, if ever, will Keir Starmer set out his stall? Does he have a stall to set out?
If the polls are right, and if its big win in Thursday’s Scottish by-election reflects a settled national mood, Labour could ride a wave of anti-Toryism right into Downing Street without a single policy worth the name.
Is that really what the public wants and all it deserves?
A party of woke rookies, led by a man of fickle beliefs, coasting to power by default?
Do Labour really know why they want it, or what they would do with it?
Starmer claims he, not Rishi Sunak, is the “change” Britain needs.
Well, his mind certainly changes often enough . . . to whatever opinion is most fashionable.
Has any potential PM done more flip-flopping?
A full-throated HS2 opponent turned supporter.
A lockdown hysteric now aghast at the cost.
The self-congratulating scourge of the Left who weeks before campaigned fervently to install a Marxist anti-Semite in No10.
It took Starmer months of woke confusion to decide if a woman can have a penis.
What if he becomes PM and has to grasp and rule on a dozen critical issues by lunchtime?
Mr Sunak says Labour want power “for the sake of power”. Is he wrong?
Their conference in Liverpool from tomorrow is Starmer’s chance to prove he is.
Mr Sunak has made his own major policy calls: A transport revolution for the North while scrapping HS2 there.
A Net Zero delay. A huge smoking clampdown. Life sentences to mean life. A-levels replaced. A reversal of the war on motorists. Curbs on benefits abuse.
Voters, it is fair to argue, want to hear far more from him on the bigger and more intractable issues like living costs, the NHS and rampant migration.
But what game-changing solutions is Starmer offering for those?
One major Labour policy did emerge yesterday: Supervised toothbrushing for primary kids. Really?
What else have you got for Britain?
Or is the plan to spend five years in Downing Street blaming the Tories, treading water and hoping for five more?
Despite his huge poll leads, Starmer has a crucial week ahead.
Voters know you’re not the Tories, Keir.
They know you’re the “woke” option.
How, in specific detail, will you change Sun readers’ lives for the better?
They and the rest of the country are all ears.
THE by-election crushing of the SNP is a moment to savour:
Humiliation for the corrosive, single-policy, anti-English independence fantasists and their vapid leader.
If Thursday’s result was good for Labour and bad for the Tories it was worse for the nationalists . . .
And brilliant for those who want to keep the UK together.
