Labour SOS signals Starmer in distress

WITH Keir Starmer’s credibility melting away quicker than an ice cream on a hot day, tomorrow’s parliamentary summer recess can’t come quickly enough for him.

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The hot months of June and July have certainly proved sticky for Keir. His back-benchers have grown ever more ungovernable and fractious, climaxing in 127 of them flexing their muscles to bring down his welfare reforms, leaving the Prime Minister with a serious authority problem and Rachel Reeves in tears wondering where she'll find the £5bn hole left by the collapse of their flagship policy on benefits.