There’s the well-trodden, often overused adage that a week is a long time in politics. Last week, the Prime Minister completed 52 of them and we’ll see how the report card is looking. For us, one year into his premiership, his card is marked and it’s the most straightforward ‘must do better’ you’ll ever see.

The most recent unedifying debacle has been their proposed welfare reforms which has shown Starmer’s government to be falling woefully short of the change he promised during the election campaign.

Labour ministers were right to have had the most egregious aspects of their welfare reforms volleyed into the proverbial long grass. But, in a silly act of self-harm, they’ve still proceeded with reforms that will damage the life chances of our sick and disabled.

Of course, we knew that there would be bumps in the road as Labour tried to correct almost 15 years of Tory austerity. But to think that the sick, disabled and our carers are fair game for cuts whilst wealth is still being accrued by those at the very top of our society is not the change people voted for.

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Pensioners were also considered expendable at the altar of prudent public finances. The cutting of their Winter Fuel Payments, subsequently partially reversed after months of campaigning by our movement and others, showed how Starmer badly misjudged the mood of the public and the righteous veracity of our pensioners to........

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