Sir Keir Starmer’s latest list of politically expendable promises are more millstone than Ed Stone...

“I’M not scaling back our ambition at all,” said Sir Keir Starmer yesterday as he scaled back his ambition again.

The sort of people who think The West Wing is an instruction manual rather than a mulchy TV drama love pledge cards.Yet could Sir Keir’s latest list of promises to ditch when they become politically expendable actually have the reverse effect to Blair’s?Netflix 'axes' show as it announces second series will be its lastand time for the other side to have a bat. But taking that sentiment for granted is very dangerous.

I get it. There’s a paranoia in the Labour psyche that defeat has been snatched from the jaws of victory time and again.Starmer’s card is a masterclass in nothingness, barely a pledge made and less detail even than his promise of guiding “missions” last year.The vow to create a Border Security Command sadly falls over on the fact there already is one, it is just called the Small Boats Operational Command.

Without dipping his party’s hands in the blood of what he actually wants to get done, Starmer is setting himself up to follow his party, rather than to actually lead it.4

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