Let us be clear; this is not a reboot nor a relaunch; still less is it an admission that things aren’t going to plan. At least that’s the word from Labour about the PM’s exciting launch of his six policy “milestones” or targets today at a film studio, along with an uncomfortable-looking cabinet.
This replaces Sir Keir Starmer’s last lot of pledges/targets/milestones, and I confess, I have forgotten what they are. Leaders are forever making pledges, which most of us would describe as hostages to fortune, unless they’re in the bag already. Rishi Sunak had, I think, five, of which I remember two and a half: “stop the boats” and get inflation down and cut hospital waiting lists of some sort. It didn’t help him.
