It was unwise of Sir Keir Starmer to describe Britain as “broke and broken” in the weeks that followed last year’s election. Since then, he and his ministers have described the NHS, the railways, the welfare system, the water industry and the asylum system as broken.
They were entitled to criticise the Conservatives’ management of each of those services, and to point out that the state of the public finances that they inherited from the previous administration was deplorable.
