How Starmer’s Labour Party went from victory to chaos
The UK chancellor is going to have to do one of two things for political survival: raise taxes, or cut public spending, because Britain is living far beyond its means.
Simon HefferHistorian, journalist, author and political commentator.
In modern British history, a party coming into government has never imploded with the speed of Keir Starmer’s Labour administration.
Elected on July 4, it is now routinely third in the opinion polls, trailing not just the Conservatives but also Reform – the party led by Nigel Farage to fill the vacuum left by a Conservative party that had failed serially to be remotely conservative. That party’s new leader, Kemi Badenoch, wants to change that, and a tussle is underway on the right for disaffected voters: but that it another story.
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Simon Heffer is an English historian, journalist, author and political commentator and is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney.
