Not everything has gone smoothly for Keir Starmer. At the end of Labour’s first calendar year in power since Gordon Brown was in Downing Street a decade and a half ago, the prime minister is on the back foot after a run of disappointing economic updates.
With a backlash over several unpopular tax and spending decisions, and as pressure mounts for a change in course early in the new year, the new government is in danger of losing control of its primary mission to revive Britain’s misfiring economy.
