Keir Starmer’s broken promises are a real problem. More of a problem than his strategists will be telling him, I suspect. A problem for his chances of election, a problem for the country.
In 2020, when Starmer ran to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party, he framed himself as the natural heir, a friend of Jezza who had worked closely with him in the shadow cabinet.
“My promise to you,” he said on his campaign website, “is that I will maintain our radical values and work tirelessly to get Labour in to power. Based on the moral case for socialism, here is where I stand.”
