OPINION - Sir Keir Starmer can't just keep blaming the Tories — he needs to give us all a little more hope
It really isn’t 1997, is it? Back then, a confident new Labour prime minister promised that “things can only get better”. In sharp contrast, Sir Keir Starmer warns today, in his first keynote speech as PM, that “things will get worse before we get better”. Note the ominous “we”.