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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer returning to his north London home
KEIR STARMER’S on-off reshuffle of his cabinet has left a trail of confusion.
The appointment of the neo-Blairite (and near neoliberal) Rachel Reeves as shadow chancellor over the mildly social democratic Anneliese Dodds is confirmation, if any was needed, that a Labour Party headed by Starmer is not likely to present a challenge to what, until very recently, was established orthodoxy in economics.
With this appointment, Starmer — who owes his position as leader to the cynical pretence that he would continue with the radical policy platforms that emerged under Jeremy Corbyn — now makes it clear that all policy is now subordinate to austerity economics and fiscal orthodoxy.
Our political sphere, stripped of its popular component by decades of neoliberalism, sits apart from the public, writes COLL MCCAIL citing a telling parallel with the writings of French revolutionary Abbe Sieyes
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT