Labour seem to believe simply not being Tories will hand them power – Keir Starmer will need more than that

Unclear Keir

THE Tories’ tax cut for the rich has gifted Keir Starmer an open goal a mile wide — and yesterday he did not miss.

Indeed he will score into that gaping net for months to come, so badly has the announcement been mishandled.

Labour’s conference has shown just how far Starmer has dragged his party back towards sanity after the Corbyn nightmare — even if he did enthusiastically support that to the bitter end.

And even if he did have to suspend one abusive backbench crank only yesterday.

At least the nutters waving Palestine flags are out. Now the comrades sing the national anthem before the Union Jack. The front bench looks more credible.

Starmer’s speech was well scripted and delivered. But while Boris Johnson’s implosion and the flaws in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini Budget are a golden opportunity, it is patently dishonest to blame the Tories for all Britain’s woes.

For three years Starmer’s campaign to overturn Brexit paralysed Parliament. Then Covid closed the economy, while he demanded longer lockdowns. Putin’s war sent surging inflation into orbit.

Starmer claims the Government only cares about the wealthy. He deliberately ignores the looming cut to basic-rate tax, reversal of the National Insurance rise and massive energy bills bailout.

When he says he will make Britain better, fairer, cleaner and more dynamic, how? His green revolution is a fantasy. When he vows to axe business rates and recruit a new army of NHS staff, where’s the cash? These are vast commitments.

Other pledges were equally vague, with no clue how to achieve them.
We heard nothing tangible to benefit Sun readers, or fix problems they care about.

Take illegal immigration. We now know the Shadow Home Secretary would scrap the Rwanda deterrent and merely beg more help from the reluctant French. That’s pathetic.

And if Starmer thinks Britain is excited by a new nationalised energy firm run by Ed Miliband and the unions, he has a shock coming.

Labour seem to believe simply not being Tories will hand them power.

Starmer will need more than that.

Police farce

YEARS of scandal and weak, woke leadership wrecked the Met Police.

How refreshing, then, to hear new boss Mark Rowley vow to probe every burglary, root out every corrupt cop and ensure his force remains unfailingly neutral over political causes.

Hope is not lost. But it may be much longer before other forces in the grip of woke madness follow the Met’s lead.

Take Sussex Police, defending a jailed male paedophile now self-identifying as a woman.

When cops were pilloried by the public for describing this wicked predator as female, they whined about “not tolerating hateful comments”.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman rightly hit the roof. Why not haul in every chief constable now and lay down the law?