In his first speech of 2024, the message from the man who will be prime minister this time next year (barring a large asteroid crashing into Earth) was, of course, a call for “national renewal”. That’s the traditional leader of the opposition’s “new year message of hope”.
Those alive for the exhilaration of the 1997 general election night will remember the miracle of renewal when a dead government vanishes into thin air with the birth of a new one.
