It’s a struggle to grasp Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain

‘Keir Starmer is right in his analysis that Britain is broken, but then fails to address the underlying causes.’ Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Did I detect a note of desperation in Martin Kettle’s piece (Starmer’s Labour knows the kind of Britain it wants – it just doesn’t know how to build it, 11 December)? The state and capitalist system that Labour and other governments have tried to manage for the last few decades is probably beyond the conventional reforms that benefited governments and their populations in the boom years after the second world war.

Now the voracious corporations that call the tune and expect Labour and others to dance are firmly in control. Witness the shameless manoeuvrings towards Blackstone et al, the Saudis and other sovereign wealth funds from Gulf states.