So, taking a look through Keir Starmer's "six missions." Initial impression: there are some very specific targets here, unusual to see in British politics. And they're challenging. Rishi Sunak's weird five missions, they are not. 🧵
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The first mission: economic stability. It's not stressed, but there's a subtle implication here that a precondition of economic stability... is political stability. No more constant swapping & changing of PMs. /2
This theme subtly runs through the whole section, implicitly acknowledging that political instability is a major cause of economic instability in the UK. Notice the commitment to "one major fiscal event a year." /3
I'm pleased to see a stress on boosting economic resilience. This will be difficult; Brexit fundamentally reduced our resilience, a background issue in all the turmoil we've faced. /4
I'm not a fan of Starmer's approach to the borders. I'd prefer stressing the creation of actual safe routes for asylum seekers. Still, at least Starmer is working on an actual functional asylum system rather than the mess that was left. /5
The stress on national security feels needed. It's still disturbing that the last Defence Review happened under Johnson, pre-Ukraine invasion - and Johnson defended it by saying the age of tank warfare in Europe was over. /6
Notice Labour's commitment to multilateralism, which is important at a time when multilateralism is coming under attack - and, when Trump takes power, will continue to do so. /7
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