Two Years of Keir Starmer. What do we think?

Might be a good idea to list the policies that are beginning to be formulated. This won’t if course be a fully comprehensive list, but might help.

1. Climate Change.
Climate and economic justice will be prioritised. £28bn pa to help develop green infrastructure/businesses and jobs.

2.Economy

Scrap unfair business rates, and replace them with a system to come down harder on on-line giants.
There should be greater transparency on the way tax payers money is spent.

3. Housing

Labour will cap the amount of housing property overseas investors can purchase, giving priority to local needs.
Local authorities will be given greater powers to purchase land for local housing.

Education

Charitable status will be removed from private schools. They will then pay tax at normal business rate, and that money will be paid into the state education budget.

Health

Double the funding for dementia research, build a dementia care service

Crime

A state-run pro bono service to compel firms to offer a certain amount of free legal advice to those who need it and are not eligible for legal aid.
Speed up rape and sexual assault cases, toughen up on street harassment and misogyny.
Restore neighbourhood policing through new police hubs and fight of anti-social behaviour.

Foreign

£35m fund to help British veterans and Afghan interpreters – to provide mental health support services and support.

Controls on the use of British troops and police to train their counterparts abroad to ensure the UK is not offering support to countries abusing human rights.

kittylester

I thought he would be a good opposition leader after Corbyn but have found him uninspiring!

A bit like Blancmange.

"And fight to redress the damage of extreme Brexit- and possibly rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union and rebuild reciprocal arrangements with the EU."

Yes, I think he should do that but in his Guardian interview he seemed to rule this out, saying that we should make brexit work

I’ve rejoined the Labour Party and will be campaigning for him at the next election. People in my family that are more involved with the party have always been impressed with him. He’s done nothing over the past two years to make me think he won’t make a good PM. He’s shown throughout the pandemic that he puts the country first and that’s what we need.

I have found him very impressive because he is so calm, well prepared and knowledgeable. He is doing the right thing now, biding his time, and allowing Johnson, and the Tories with him, to use that rope and do the job for him. He will work for clever and positive alliances, get rid of the extreme left and fight to rebuild the Trust in the UK in Europe and the World.

And fight to redress the damage of extreme Brexit- and possibly rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union and rebuild reciprocal arrangements with the EU.

I like him and all the party squabbling seems to have stopped so they make a more effective opposition. I think he has the intelligence, fitness and integrity to be a PM on a world stage and would be able to negotiate EU trade agreements better. It's a shambles for businesses in the UK atm, it needs sorting ASAP

Shame we have that short fat plonker as a PM instead

I thought he would be a good opposition leader after Corbyn but have found him uninspiring!

I didn't vote Labour but thought he might make a good leader when he took over. He hasn't impressed me in the last couple of years, though.

PS should have said I’m in Wales, and continued to support Labour in Welsh elections. Labour is doing very well here, latest Welsh opinion survey attached.
c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1112869803?-850:14274

Yes. I left Labour when JC was elected leader, and voted LibDem last time. For the first time in 10 years I think Labour is electable.