{"id":139327,"date":"2024-09-21T16:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T16:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/21\/sir-keir-starmer-warned-labour-victory-uniquely-fragile-amid-freebie-row\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T16:41:13","slug":"sir-keir-starmer-warned-labour-victory-uniquely-fragile-amid-freebie-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/21\/sir-keir-starmer-warned-labour-victory-uniquely-fragile-amid-freebie-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer warned Labour victory ‘uniquely fragile’ – amid freebie row"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Labour’s landslide promising “change” was less than three months ago, and the party goes into its first conference needing to show it has begun.<\/p>\n

Meeting in celebratory mood, as a party in government for the first time in 14 years, the message will be that the things they’ve talked about can start to be put into action.<\/p>\n

Ministers now acknowledge that the past few days have seen constant distraction, whether about free clothes, gifted football hospitality and how Downing Street itself is operating.<\/p>\n

Criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to take \u00a316,000 of clothes from a Labour donor, and donations for his wife’s wardrobe, has been raging in the newspapers.<\/p>\n

After digging in for days to defend it, the leader’s team bowed to pressure, announcing that neither the prime minister, nor his deputy Angela Rayner or chancellor Rachel Reeves – both also revealed to have taken donations for clothes – will do so in future.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, told Sky News “we certainly don’t want the news and the commentary to be dominated by conversations about clothes, when we have a really positive agenda for this country”.<\/p>\n

Donations are “always difficult issues in British politics”, she said, given political leaders cannot charge the taxpayer for these items.<\/p>\n

But as a voter in Liverpool told us today, “[Starmer] was always quick to slate the Tories over sleaze”.<\/p>\n

Others praised him for being honest about it, but all had heard of the row.<\/p>\n

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One reason why this matters emerges in a new report called How Labour Won, by researchers at Labour Together – a Starmer-supporting thinktank. Based on 10,000 interviews in polls and focus groups, it concluded that Labour’s victory is uniquely fragile.<\/p>\n

It was based on winning the support of Middle Britain – the 12% of 2019 Conservative voters who were convinced to switch to Labour. Another 19% of Tory voters backed Reform, 18% other parties on the left, and 16% stayed at home. In other words, the centre deserted them.<\/p>\n

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The researchers say: “In the past, winning 411 seats was the kind of victory from which a government might confidently expect 10 years in power. This Labour government has been cautiously hired, on a trial basis, liable to prompt dismissal if it deviates even slightly from its focus on voters’ priorities. Voters hope it will deliver, but they do not necessarily expect it.”<\/p>\n

These switchers believed Labour had changed – tackled antisemitism, able to be trusted on the public finances, they say, Therefore, they were trusted to bring about change in areas they care about – the cost of living and the NHS. But the report calls it a “time-limited investment”.<\/p>\n

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This conference will see Labour ministers hammering the gloomy message that they’ve inherited an economic black hole and tough decisions – spending cuts – are coming. The budget is looming at the end of October,<\/p>\n

“You’ll hear about the inheritance time and time again, and why we have to fix the foundations”, an adviser said.<\/p>\n

There will also be more of an attempt to frame in broad terms, the destination – building homes, more NHS and dentist appointments, reforming the railways.<\/p>\n

The challenge will be finding measurable ways to show voters they are inching towards it and not getting blown off course.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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