How many resets does it take to make a doom loop? In another attempt to work out what the problem with his government is – and with all the mirror salesmen in the capital presumably on holiday – Keir Starmer has done another mini-reshuffle. ‘Phase two of my government starts today’ he says in a fatuous video clip, deploying that nasal whine which you had probably mercifully forgotten over the recess.

The image of the PM squeezed into those gimpy little shorts postmen wear is not one that anybody wants

Obviously all this isn’t actually phase two but probably closer to phase 14. This time it’s involved the mass import of people from a thing called ‘The Resolution Foundation’. It sounds like one of those organisations set up by upper-class socialists in the 1930s which advocated for the for

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