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for a start I’d like to see him come up with a policy framework
Since Starmer took over in 2019, he's announced over two hundred non-Covid related policies (source: https://labourlist.org/2021/09/labour-should-announce-fewer-policies-report-recommends/)
The problem is not the lack of policy. Anyone who thinks it is has simply not been paying attention.
The problem is the lack of cut through. That's nothing to do with policy; that's to do with ability to communicate values, principles, positions. That's much broader and higher level than policy.
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Well, for a start I’d like to see him come up with a policy framework, so that when he’s asked “well, what would you instead?/what do you propose?/how would you do it?” he’s actually able to give an answer instead of waffling away and showing himself to be empty. Maybe he could put them out as ten pledges or something, so that people know what Labour would do when they make a case for something not being good enough. He can then ruthlessly drill that into his MPs to get a consistent message happening, instead of the general air of “???” that’s currently going on.
I hear there’s another reset coming, with a 14,000 word essay - maybe there’ll be something in that