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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Toby Helm Political editor

The Farage effect: why Keir Starmer is styling Labour as the ‘disruptors’

Prime minister Keir Starmer speaks during a meeting with his Dutch counterpart (not pictured) at 10 Downing Street in London on 6 February.
Prime minister Keir Starmer speaks during a meeting with his Dutch counterpart (not pictured) at 10 Downing Street in London on 6 February. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

It only takes a quick look at today’s poll by Opinium for the Observer to see why a big tactical rethink (some in the Labour party call it a panic) is under way in Downing Street.

In the space of a couple of weeks, the Labour high-command has morphed from being a risk-averse, technocratic operation which said and did very little that was interesting in order to win power – and did little more in the first six months after taking it – into something else entirely.

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