It has been another difficult week for Keir Starmer. He has lost his director of communications, and his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, is under constant fire. The economy is stagnant and he faces near-constant manoeuvring from Andy Burnham. So today’s speech at the ‘Global Progress Action Summit’ in London took on an added weight. With Labour conference beginning on Sunday, many of Starmer’s MPs and members are looking for a lead after another summer of drift.

The Prime Minister sought to do that in a 20-minute address. His speech sought to explain the loss of confidence which has seen the party’s poll rating slump to less than 20 per cent. Standing alongside Australia’s Anthony Albanese and Canada’s Mark Carney, he argued that global election results refuted media claims that centre-

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