Outgoing PM moves to cements his legacy before his replacement by Andy Burnham as party leader tomorrow
Jakub Krupa has more coverage of Keir Starmer’s trip to Ukraine on his Europe live blog.
Good morning. Conventional wisdom has it that, once a PM announces they are going to stand down, all their power vanishes faster than water down a clear plughole. Broadly that’s correct. But in the last week or so Keir Starmer seems to have been acting with a decisiveness that eluded him for most of his time in office: finalising the defence investment plan; delivering the long-awaited apology to victims of forced adoption; over-ruling the security services to deliver the concession that got the Hillsborough law bill over the line; and finally securing a conditional pardon for Ruth Ellis. Continue reading…
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