28 April 2025, 15:11

By Callum McGoldrick

It’s no secret that Sir Keir Starmer and his top team aren’t happy with the way the British state runs itself.

They came to power with a whopping majority and a promise of change - however nebulous that promise was - and yet there is a strong sense that much of their first 10 months or so in office has been wasted.

Why is that? Many put it down to poor preparation in opposition, a weak frontbench and the failure to spell out their plans to the public, limiting their room to manoeuvre.

All those criticisms have some merit, but a bigger, more structural problem they are facing is that when ministers pull levers, nothing much happens.

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