Starmer won’t fix child poverty because it doesn’t help him win an election ...Middle East

The Tories were booted out in the last election because voters, including many lifelong Conservatives, were disillusioned. Instead of improving their lives or uplifting the nation, the Government had become hubristic, careless and mendacious. All it wanted was to hang on to power.

Give him electoral predictions, tell him how he can keep his job, power and prestige. That’s all that seems to matter to him. That’s why he acts and sounds like a robot.

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If I’d been his speechwriter I’d have got him to say: “The local election results have been a wake-up call. I have listened to the people about winter fuel payments, the two-child benefits cap, disability benefits and personal independence payments. My Cabinet will be rethinking these. I have already got civil servants to look into how we can restore fuel payments to more pensioners. Labour cares.” An empathetic, principled and adroit PM would be able to say that. Starmer can’t.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall have pushed Labour’s child poverty strategy to the autumn and a growing number of Labour MPs, particularly newbies, are getting restive.

I know many Labour supporters will feel I am wrong to attack a young government, that Reform is responsible for the febrility that is forcing them to turn more right-wing.

A Prime Minister addicted to opinion polls

Pollsters, highly profitable businesses, have become the biggest political influencers in all democracies. Yet they are not accountable to anyone. There is no official regulator to check their methods or conclusions.

“The cumulative effect was that discussion and coverage of actual policies, ideas and manifesto commitments was too often crowded out,” Heaton wrote. “The election discourse became about who’d gained or lost the odd point here or there, and how that might translate into seats.”

If it carries on like this, many of its supporters will not vote for the party, or indeed vote at all. If that means Reform gets some Labour’s seats, blame Starmer.

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