Keir Starmer’s reset isn’t going very well. He turned up at Prime Minister’s Questions today clearly hoping to talk about the vision he had for the country, but ended up doing something he always complained about others doing when he was in opposition: dodging the question.
A planted question from a Labour backbencher allowed Starmer to kick off PMQs with some words about changing Britain:
‘We were elected to change the country, and that means getting the NHS back on its feet. The Chancellor will have much more to say about that in the budget, about fixing the foundations for our economy so we put money in people’s pockets, fix our public services and rebuild Britain.’
The Prime Minister was quite happy with the first question from Rishi Sunak, which was on the new workers’ rights package due to be published by the government tomorrow. The leader of the opposition used this policy to make a joke about Sue Gray.
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