‘A bit of a pickle’ - How Labour’s first week back saw the first warning signs of fissures, division and conflict over policy
Aside from distractions over various scandals and other nefarious activities, governments often find that one of the worst issues they have is ‘time’.
In my last piece, I highlighted that recess had already curtailed Labour's attempts to jumpstart the legislative process and resulted in six weeks quickly vanishing. I also highlighted Starmer's “ambitious” plans announced last week to get several pieces of flagship legislation through the arduous legislative process before Christmas - and that it was going to be difficult.
'But I have to be honest with you...' - Something needs to be done about Labour's messaging before it risks alienating everybody
The timing of this years’ election was unfortunate for Labour in the sense that almost as soon as they entered government, they would enter recess.
One of the reasons why it's likely to be difficult is due to the conference season beginning in earnest, which will mean everything will, once again, more or less grind to a halt for about a month.
Interestingly -
Labour seem to have devised a cunning strategy to fill the void in legislation that’ll no doubt be compounded by conference season so that even if they fail to deliver the policies in the timeframe that they have set for themselves, they can at least say they’ve done ‘something’.