‘We need real change, not fiddling at the edges’: voters on Labour’s first year

Some voters described the Labour leader as ‘unprincipled” or ‘flip-flopping’. Photograph: Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing Street

For Aiden Robertson, a 35-year-old consultant from Burnley, Labour’s first year back in government can only be summed up as “incredibly disappointing”.

The year had been marked, he felt, by “dreadful communication, a lack of clear purpose, zero vision”, while Labour had been “pandering to Reform voters who will never back them”.