Keir Starmer’s ‘first steps’ might get him into Downing Street. But there is danger ahead

‘Starmer’s six policies were small steps in the right direction, but not enough to transform a society racked by grotesque levels of inequality.’ Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

We’re months away from a general election whose outcome has already been determined. Rishi Sunak has repeatedly demonstrated that he is no political Lazarus, and the question is not whether the Conservatives will lose the election but by how much – and how long they will take to recover, or whether their party will survive at all.

So the focus is on Labour’s strategy for entry into government and beyond.