It was just 18 months ago that Keir Starmer took office, pledging to ‘stop the endless Conservative chaos’. How times change. Far from a politics that ‘treads more lightly on your lives’, it seems that every week now there is a fresh U-turn as the government totters like a punch-drunk boxer, stumbling from one crisis to the next. Mr S has done the honours and dutifully prepared a round-up of all the major policy switches that Labour has done since coming to office:
- The grooming gangs inquiry in June 2025
- Winter fuel payment cuts in June 2025
- Welfare cuts in June 2025
- Two-child benefit cap in November 2025
- Inheritance tax on farmers in December 2025
- Business rates for pubs in January 2026
- Digital ID in January 2026
And these are the pre-election promises that Starmer has broken too:
- Debt definition in October 2024
- Waspi Women in December 2024
- Transgender rights in April 2025
- Effective income tax hike in November 2025
- Employment Rights Bill concessions in December 2025
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