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Since 2016, British voters told their political leaders that things should change. From the exit of Britain from the European Union, through Boris Johnson and finally winning a landslide on the promise of Sir Kerr Starmer consisting of the word “change”, and the voters who calmed down through the recession and the failure of public services.
Those who are at the top of labor wants to see themselves as agents of change. Morgan Maksini, Chief of Staff Staff, hold meetings on how to be considered a rebel government. However, it looks far away. In the words of one ally, “We somehow have come to a place to be seen as a party in the current situation, which is the right to change.”
In some respects, this is unfair. In clean planning and energy, the Labor Party follows transformative reforms but is very similar to the usual business administration. This explains partially UK poll to Najel Faraj in the United KingdomAnd it is terrifying the deputies of Starmer. The pioneering party characters quoted a modern podcast by the American journalist Ezra Klein On how American Democrats lost the battle for attention, and the anxiety that is happening here as voters of traditional work in Farage.
There are three clear issues. The first is the behavior of Starmer and other higher characters. The Prime Minister does not coincide with a cancellation. The problem has been exacerbated by early errors on everyone who means testing retired fuel payments and clothes offered by donors-which allows critics to be drawn as another group of self-serving politicians.
The government did not exhale. There are a lot of reviews and consultations, and a lot of respect for the Treasury Department. If planning and infrastructure repair is very central, then why are we still awaiting legislation? We will be in the second year of this government before it has an impact. Why will Easter be before NHS reforms detect?
The third problem is mixing messages. Starmer talks about giving priority to growth – this is the correct invitation. But taxes are still high and the recruitment bill, as it provides more rights to workers, union power, and warning work. The work between bias with tank workers and treasury efforts to reduce proposals. Although growth is the right necessity, the language of productivity and gross domestic product does not hesitate to resonate with the public.
There has been more urgency since the new year. There were signs welcoming the depletion of patience in the transfer of Rachel Reeves to Call the chewing and chew I thought she was standing in the path of growth, as well as in The overthrow of the Chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority. Starmer showed similar irritation with environmental control. The criticism of the failed bureaucracy of the state is now common in all parties. However, when compared to the attacks on Donald Trump's throws, you see why the work style looks very special that it is not a rebel.
It is still close to the new momentum on the economy with the wider strategic experts in renewal, believes that the party needs, not the least of which because they are not sure of the distance competing with populism.
The IPPR, who is behind my thinking about working at the heart of thinking about the rebel government, says that the party should be seen as choosing battles to show that alongside those who let them down. Its director, Harry Cherter Pinner, says that the ministers “should not end like the progressive in another place, and defend the failed current situation. Faken and unique voters want to see them clearly and voice for their interests.”
Where might these battles take labor? The status of workers at the top of the big business sends a signal, although it is a weakness in view of the weak economy. Giving priority to tenants on owners and non -study of graduates with a focus on vocational skills and training as well. I wealth is imposed to finance public services, whether it is the second homes or investments, withdraws divided lines. The solid bureaucracy also coexists. Wes, Minister of Health and one of the few in the cabinet who can compete in the war for the public's interest, talks about fighting the interests gained within NHS to improve health care. Now people need to see it.
Some of these trends will worry the deputies. This is still the Labor Party. Taking public employees or unions is not in DNA. You don't want to correspond to the repair of immigration, which is uncomfortable to reduce the huge increase in the benefits of the disease despite the high number Voters believe that the rules are very lenient. But it can offer better ideas, more bold. Digital ID cards, for example, can deter spicy asylum seekers and learn about signals for immigration concerns.
Drawing these bright divided lines will also be uncomfortable for wealthy voters and must be balanced with the development of the economy. But one of the strategy argues if the work does not seem able to reform “forged” institutions, “the voters will resort to parties and promise to destroy them.”
The central lesson from Trump – Johnson – is the strength of the ongoing signals, in the rows you are looking for, and the groups were intentionally struck and the messages that are unavoidable to the allies. The lesson is that policies should not only provide improvements, but hunger must also appear to change.
Quiet efficiency is no longer enough in politics. After winning as a change party, the Labor Party knows that it should improve a lot in appearing.
