Keir Starmer’s rousing call for “a decade of national renewal” noted that “democratic rules, democratic values, democratic certainties are under attack”, denounced “the shallow men and women of Westminster” and promised to build a new “partnership between people and politics” (Starmer woos Tory voters as he declares ‘fire of change still burns in Britain’, 10 October). But neither he nor those behind him have yet spelt out how they will transform the way Westminster works, or how our overcentralised government runs Britain.
Unless Labour is ready to change the way the UK is governed, and how we recruit and elect our politicians, we may reach the end of a decade of national renewal with an unavoidably disillusioned public turning back to a reinvigorated and more rightwing Conservative party, for lack of any alternative.
