As Tube strikes bring London to a halt, Labour must realise its pushover relations with trade unions have been to no avail, writes Paul Ormerod

Keir Starmer has tried to signal a major reset of his government by his reshuffle of the Cabinet and the promotion of a batch of the new intake of MPs.

A different approach is certainly needed. Since the election, at times it has been as if the government believed they were still in opposition. Their job was simply to mouth the phrases. It was for someone else to actually do anything.

Hardly a statement went by on anything connected to the economy without the use of the phrase “£22bn black hole”. It acquired almost the status of an epithet in the works of Homer, a sort of shorthand which enables immediate identification of the thing being described. For Labour, the phrase “£22bn black hole” encapsulated a whole litany of Conservative mistakes and plain mismanagement of the economy.

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