The clue is in the name. The “mission-driven” government to which Keir Starmer is ostensibly committed is meant to be defined by its strategic objectives and the steps by which they will be achieved in his “decade of renewal”.
As an irritated parliamentary ally of the Prime Minister put it to me yesterday: “The whole row over the winter fuel allowance cut is completely explicable in terms of Keir’s missions.” Good to know, of course — with the minor caveat that nobody in government is publicly framing this message in such terms, or spelling out where these initially painful steps are leading.
