The first 100 days.

maddyone

A lot of money to be spent on Inquiries then.

Yes millions of £’s

Four migrants have died overnight when their small boat capsized, 63 were saved by French authorities.

The Attorney General

Richard Hermer - a distinguished human rights lawyer from outside the world of politics, to the role within the government of all the talents has been widely welcomed as a breath of fresh air.

Geoffrey Robertson KC - “He’s got the law at his fingertips, and his advice would be careful and correct. I think he will guide government action within the parameters of the law”

Tory attorneys general Victoria Prentis – his immediate predecessor – and Dominic Grieve, have praised him

Among the issues in his in-tray will be the Gaza war, with some taking his appointment over Emily Thornberry, who had shadowed the role since 2021, as a sign that Labour will take a stronger stance towards Israel after alienating many voters over the issue during the election campaign.
Last October, Hermer, who attends Alyth synagogue in north-west London, was one of several high-profile Jewish lawyers, alongside Sands, to say, in a letter to the Financial Times, that Israel had a right to self-defence but must be guided by the law in its response to the Hamas attack. In an interview on LBC the same month he said it was “almost impossible to conceive of how a siege that deprives a civilian population of the basic necessities of life … is in compliance with international law.”

Martyn Day, the founder of human rights law firm Leigh Day, has known Hermer for 26 years, having become his “go to barrister” after he instructed him in a case against tobacco companies related to lung cancer.
“It is the most impressive appointment within the legal world that I’ve seen,” said Day. “He really is a man of integrity. I think we as a nation can thank Keir Starmer for such an innovative decision to bring somebody totally outside politics into what is quite a critical post.”

Guardian

The alternative to what is happening now would have been a government having yet another leadership contest which means we would have had several more months of nothing being done and then an election.

A lot of money to be spent on Inquiries then.

He is a cautious man. That’s why the 100 days is needed. Knee jerk politics doesn’t work effectively.

Starmer did not promise any timescales
No, even with the defence funding promises, there was no timescale given.

If things go to plan you will see the things Starmer said would be done in the first 100 days, happen in the first 100 days. Achievable targets will be set to deliver on the manifesto within the five year term, each will have a realistic timescale. Pretty much how any business operates in fact. Starmer did not promise any timescales deliberately, as he certainly isn’t dim or deluded. I know you too are sensible, not dim or deluded. Let’s just say we both understand the score.

But people relied on their promises and they cannot have been so unaware as they now claim.

Lord Darzi was reporting in 2018 by the way.

Of course they will claim everything is much, much worse than they thought because they knew before they were elected that they wouldn't be able to make radical changes in five years.

I googled Lord Darzi and there is already The Lord Darzi Review of Health & Care
Final Report Summary at
www.sciananetwork.org
It really does not look very good.

I am not dim, deluded or deliberately contrary - but now it’s all so much worse than they expected when making their promises, made after consulting with clinicians, and now Streeting is ‘stunned’ and commissioning an independent enquiry, doubtless at no small expense. As ronib says, this is a five year parliament so why is he looking at a ten year plan? How long will we wait before seeing any of the promised improvements?

Germanshepherdsmum

Excuses, excuses - anyone expecting anything to happen any time soon will be sorely disappointed.

Only the really dim, deluded or deliberately contrary expect anything to happen soon though of course, don’t they, we sensible people know what they have committed to do in 100 days, and that is what we are measuring them against, rather than the manifesto - which is a plan for 5 years.

But 5 years is the term of this Parliament? The plan should not take ten years surely? Ten years does seem a very long time to wait for improvements?

Excuses, excuses - anyone expecting anything to happen any time soon will be sorely disappointed.

Health

Wes Streeting said he has been “genuinely stunned” by the NHS failings he has learned about since becoming health secretary.
He said much of what he had been told is not yet in the public domain and he is determined to "tell the truth to our country" about how patients and staff had been failed.

It is more than eight years since any of the key waiting time targets for A&E, hospital waiting times or cancer care have been hit in England.
Mr Streeting has ordered an independent investigation into NHS performance in England.
The investigation - led by NHS surgeon and independent peer Lord Ara Darzi - will help inform Mr Streeting's 10-year plan for the NHS.

Manifestos are never fully fulfilled - this country knows this.

There are only a few contracts waiting to be completed. These are the ones that labour is seeking legal advice over.

But even if they decide that it will be too costly to pursue, it will not abandon the end goal, which is a cleaner greener U.K.

Wwm2. Labour is taking legal advice to find out what its policy options are - what a joke!

ronib

Wwm2 hang on - 9 million people wanted Labour and an overwhelming majority didn’t. Still don’t.
Also Labour is waiting for legal advice. Once briefed, the policy might be reversed? Abandoned or implemented- still early stages… not the clearest way of bringing about change but…..

Doesn’t matter, Labour is the government and will be expected to fulfil its manifesto.

There is no getting out of that.

All of those criticising Labour Party policy - re North Sea oil, would be the first to criticise if Labour did not fulfil its manifesto promises.

So are you saying that labour should not fulfil its manifesto promises, that it was voted in on only 6 short days ago?

Wwm2 hang on - 9 million people wanted Labour and an overwhelming majority didn’t. Still don’t.
Also Labour is waiting for legal advice. Once briefed, the policy might be reversed? Abandoned or implemented- still early stages… not the clearest way of bringing about change but…..

Is this guy being paid by Norway? Have you seen how many ££s billions we pay Norway to send us their oil so we don't have to drill our own? Insanity.

karmalady agree with you. 👏

GrannyGravy13

I am all for renewables, but lessons have to be learnt from the Russia - Ukraine war, the U.K. has to be energy secure.

Didn’t the Conservatives do away with our gas storage facilities?