Starmer’s hail mary “reset” speech this morning was around 65% reheated from the Labour conference address he delivered eight months ago in Liverpool. A line-by-line analysis shows the same family anecdotes (albeit without the signature “toolmaker” refrain) , the same attack lines on Farage, the same education policy, and large chunks of the same phrasing. As if it wasn’t torturous enough the first time…
To give just one example, the youth jobs guarantee was already announced by Rachel Reeves at conference and then repeated by Starmer in his own address. So today was the third time lucky…
At conference:
“A new guarantee… training, work support or an apprenticeship… for every young person struggling to find work.”
And today…:
“Every young person struggling to find a job will get a guaranteed offer of a job, training or work placement.”
There’s plenty more. Take a look below…
| Conference · 29 Sept 2025 | Reset · 11 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| “A new guarantee… training, work support or an apprenticeship… for every young person struggling to find work.” | “Every young person struggling to find work will get a guaranteed offer of a job, training or a work placement.” |
| Youth jobs guarantee — third time of asking | |
| “Further education… so long a Cinderella service… ignored because politicians’ kids don’t go there.” | “Kids ignored by the status quo because politicians’ kids don’t go there.” |
| “Politicians’ kids” — near verbatim | |
| “A fight for the soul of our country… every bit as big as rebuilding Britain after the war.” | “This is nothing less than a battle for the soul of our nation.” |
| Soul of the nation — recycled framing | |
| “I thought about my sister… a care-worker… she works with adults with Down Syndrome.” | “My sister is a carer… working long hours on low pay… she didn’t even get sick pay in the pandemic.” |
| Sister anecdote — recycled | |
| “My brother… badly failed by the education system… put to one side… barely even seen.” | “My late brother, Nick… spent all his adult life going from one job to the next… the status quo did not work for him.” |
| Brother anecdote — recycled | |
| “They lived through austerity… Brexit… Covid… played by the rules.” | “The 2008 financial crash… the Tory austerity that followed it… Brexit… Covid… the Ukraine War.” |
| Crisis litany — recycled | |
| “More apprenticeships… more technical colleges — technical excellence colleges… qualifications linked to jobs.” | “We will go much further on our investment in apprenticeships… in technical excellence colleges… in special educational needs.” |
| Apprenticeships & technical colleges — recycled | |
| “Isaac… who scrubbed off that racist graffiti in York.” | “The people who paint over the graffiti that is racist.” |
| Graffiti motif — recycled | |
| Opening | Achievements | Family bio | Europe | Grievance | Closing |
| Reset | Iran | Steel | Education | March |
| Recycled from conference | New today |
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”