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2 July 2024

Keir Starmer’s hard road ahead

Labour’s project to rebuild Britain is serious – but the odds are stacked against them.

By Andrew Marr

One thing we can all agree on: Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been an unmitigated disaster. It has been oppressive, incompetent, tin-eared, divided. It has failed to achieve growth or lower immigration or cut crime.

What’s that you say? That I’m writing this before the votes have been counted? That it hasn’t “happened” yet? Details. Piddling, finickety details. Look at the bigger picture. Bloody Labour, stodgy betrayers – they have already failed us again.

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