Just under a fortnight ago, a tanned and unusually ebullient Sir Keir Starmer gathered together his staff in No 10 to launch “phase two” of his government. He gave them a pep talk. It was released as a video, and it hasn’t aged well.
“We’re going to phase two in good spirits – confident, and with conviction about what we’re doing. It needs a more powerful No 10, so we’ve added to the team some really important new members, and made a number of other changes. But this is about focus on delivery,” the PM declared, purposefully.
