The most revealing news in British politics last week was a letter from Keir Starmer to his cabinet ministers. It was written for a special six-hour cabinet meeting held in Lancaster House, the grand government mansion opposite Buckingham Palace, on Friday 7 February.
A couple of lines from the letter formed part of the account given to journalists at the time of what the prime minister had said at the meeting. We were briefed that he had told ministers that they could “either be the disruptors or the disrupted”, and that they needed to “increase the pace of change” in order to defeat “right-wing populists” who claimed to be “on the side of working people” but could only offer “grievances not solutions”.
