Keir Starmer admits ‘much more’ to do after difficult first six months in No 10
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Labour leader promises to ‘fight’ to help UK rediscover the ‘great nation we are’ as Kemi Badenoch says changing her party could be ‘bumpy’ and Reform boss Nigel Farage echoes Donald Trump in new year message. Sir Keir Starmer has said there is still “so much more” to do in his first new year message as prime minister after a difficult first six months in No 10.
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The Labour leader said the work to change the UK had “begun” but added that he knew that for many people it was “hard to think about the future when you spend all of your time fighting to get through the week”. “I know there is still so much more to do,” he added.
The traditional message comes just days after a shock new poll suggested that Sir Keir could lose his majority and nearly 200 of the seats he won in July’s landslide victory – including 67 to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Labour has struggled with everything from a “freebies” scandal to a backlash over Rachel Reeves’s Budget since the party swept to power in July.
Pollsters and Labour insiders have called on Sir Keir to be seen to deliver for workers in 2025. Labour faces its first big electoral test since the general election in just five months’ time, with thousands of councillors set to be elected in local elections in May. The council results will be seen as a key barometer for a party that just a few months ago looked as if it would be difficult to eject from Downing Street at the next election.
