No 10 has just confirmed at today’s Lobby briefing that there are no plans to hold a celebration to mark 100 days of government. Starmer will be holed up in Downing Street this weekend working on his “reset”…
The government has also now abandoned the line it’s stuck with for the past week that government has been a success so far. Starmer’s spokesman says only: “It is for the public to judge.” And judged they have…
Starmer will make a statement marking the 100-day line. It looks like Labour won’t be putting much into its “national campaign weekend” to “celebrate the party’s progress and continue building momentum”…
Douglas Alexander – a friend of Starmer’s – was asked on Sky News if the PM will be in post at the next election. He wasn’t so sure himself:
“I think he will. There are no certainties but of course I think he will lead and I think he should because, frankly, on the biggest call in this parliament he’s exercised the right judgment, which is to keep us out of someone else’s war.”