Can-do Labour leaves zombie politics behind
Daily Mirror UK|August 16, 2024
"EVENTS, dear boy, events," is the most overworked political cliché of our times.
PAUL ROUTLEDGE
Can-do Labour leaves zombie politics behind

It was Tory premier Harold Supermac Macmillan's answer when asked about the greatest challenge facing a statesman.

But like most truisms, it is founded in truth. Unexpected hits wreck Prime Ministers.

Think David Cameron and his ill-fated Brexit referendum.

It's how they handle them that counts, and few incomers to Downing Street have confronted a more testing start than Sir Keir Starmer.

This story is from the August 16, 2024 edition of Daily Mirror UK.

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