Good morning. Where Labour once had a D:Ream, it now says that our long national nightmare is … not over. “Frankly, things will get worse before we get better,” Keir Starmer will say today, in a speech billed by Downing Street as a “direct message to the working people across Britain”. Does it count as the end of the honeymoon period if you’re the one telling everyone it’s rubbish?
There is method to Starmer’s approach: he is seeking to blame the difficult decisions ahead on the Conservatives as much as possible. But whether voters will accept this explanation of painful steps like proposed new limits on the winter fuel payment for pensioners is another question.
