Starmer has rebuilt Labour but job of rebuilding country is greater challenge

When the Labour leader walks through the black door of Downing Street he will experience for the first time the immense power of that office pulsing through his veins. He will hopefully also feel a huge weight of responsibility that has been so disgracefully lacking in the majority of his five predecessors of the last 14 years.

As a result of Brexit, the pandemic, war in Ukraine and perhaps most damaging of all an aging population, just maintaining current standards in our NHS, schools and local authorities will require everyone to contribute more. The government is now paying huge interest on debts and welfare bills have grown, spending on health is ever-increasing and there is mounting pressure to increase defence funding.

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The narrow politics of division and small-minded economics of greed that they represent are not the answer and will lead Britain into isolated oblivion both economically and culturally. Starmer needs to realise that in this moment the real power lies with him, he is the one with the country ­tentatively on his side, not the billionaire media barons who for years tried for years to destroy his party but are now obsequiously currying favour.

Top news stories today Starmer must also build a trusting working relationship with the Scottish Government and accept that at some point a grown-up ­discussion about the constitution will have to take place if ­democracy calls for it. More than anything Labour needs to ­eradicate the sleaze, corruption and total destruction of standards in public life that Boris Johnson turbocharged during his time in Downing Street.

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