One of PM’s expanding cohort of critics in Labour party says policy programme ‘sums up where we have gone wrong’
For Keir Starmer’s Labour critics, his second king’s speech, in which the government set out what it would do in parliament over the next 12 to 18 months, was a crystallisation of everything that was wrong with the prime minister’s strategy.
Over 34 bills and three draft ones, Starmer set out a programme he said would “make this country stronger and fairer”. But the package, which included limiting trial by jury, reshaping the NHS and moving the country closer to the EU, fell short of what some in the prime minister’s party feel is needed to win back voters’ trust.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Kiran StaceyPolicy editor.
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