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Cannes Doodle's avatar

Excellent and balanced account. Press hysteria is beyond eccentric. If a week is a long time in politics, then there is surely time in the next four years to adjust the tiller.

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Alan Hirsch's avatar

A much needed corrective to the shallow reporting of most of the British media. Starmer has notched up some significant acheivements. But the 'fiscal straightjacket' was too tight and between Starmer and Rachel Reeves, the pitch was less than perfect. And, yes, the point scoring journalism of the BBC and other media is tedious, but the communications skills of Number 10 have deteriorated since the days of Thatcher and Blair.

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