The Guardian view on Starmer’s U-turn: change direction – or keep losing support | Editorial

SIr Keir Starmer’s U. In winter, fuel payments in the winter did not represent a reflection of politics. This was the moment when the Prime Minister, who was elected promises of national renewal, was forced to confront the political reality that his strategy rejected to recognize. It may also prove to be the moment when he lost control.

The original policy, which excelled in Cabinet and motive For several months, fuel payments in the winter, which reach 300 pounds annually, reduced to Millions From retirees. He was UnpopularAnd unnecessary. Local election losses and looming on the horizon Backbench The rebellion on the discounts in normal benefits made it political toxic. The result? Wednesday, Sidi Kiir reverse Of course in the transmission box – with his advisor, Rachel Reeves, in particular. Very little, it is too late: the voters saw a delay; Activists cried betrayal.

This was not just a policy slip. It was a strategic, ideological and social imbalance. She convinced the work leadership itself that its electoral base did not consist of Social liberals educated from the university And the younger tenants-the key to its election alliance-but from Reform repairSocial conservative voters yearn for financial discipline and border control. This wrong reading, which is fueled by semester folklore and supported by the Labor Representative Luke AkherstA major figure between the party and right center, she was always a mirage. Most of the UK reformist voters are not workers to decline. They are largely included in the “right -reserved” bloc, as noticed by Manchester University James David Griffiths. Hust them means alienating the work base.

This seems to be happening. Sir Kiir record minimum Al -Safi’s susceptibility to his talisman as the leader of the Labor Party in May. And now, with U rotating Accumulation, the story gained another dimension: the cabinet rebellion. Opening the leakage of the ideological rift between Mrs. Reeves and the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rainer. The last note for Mrs. Reeves, suggests High taxes Betterly instead of discounts to meet the financial rules imposed by them, it revealed the defection.

This is not only about tax policy. It is a flash point in the struggle for the Labor Party identity. Mrs. Rainer represents a policy based on contemporary Britain: Professional, socially liberal, economically redistribution. Mrs. Reeves is the revival of the Charity of the Central, who imagines Britain as it was in 1997. But this is not. Blair Britain more. Voters are more than the middle class, more educated and more diverse. Received. The survival of the work depends on the recognition of this.

The Labor Party is running the last war – not against the conservatives, but against Jeremy Corbin. The party risks joining Europe Central left losses – Triangle through turmoil with a broken political compass. If the Labor Party continues to ignore the dynamics of the electoral bloc and build a strategic coalition, it will abandon the right and right land.

Daily pushing prizes Suggest Labor will not budging – yet. But its economic strategy runs out of the road. Axis is possible: towards tax fairness, green investment, new language MigrationElectoral reform, ending austerity and rebuilding confidence with young urban voters who put labor in power. But it should be decisive. Sir Kiir must lead the transformation government, not the continuity of conservatives. If the path does not change, “Escalation“It may seem just close to standing on the way. Fuel failure in the winter was not a tactical mistake – it has revealed the defective vision of the voters. The voters are uncomfortable, noticed.

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