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party's election performance. In [an article for the Sunday Times](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/labour-snp-scotland-election-jack-mcconnell-vxth23dxd), he suggested the election strategy lacked ambition and was "never going to galvanise Scottish voters". "Scottish Labour must develop a vision
strategy and economic policy that will reorient Labour back to working people, so Labour do what it was elected to do: govern in the interests of workers.” Union officials had been frustrated when Downing Street
Starmer of becoming the “inadvertent midwife of a fifth-term SNP government” in Scotland’s parliamentary elections, saying Labour had been unable to challenge the Scottish National party because of “noise created at the centre
party feel a bit better about itself after a bruising set of local election results, McTernan added. “Keir’s messaging seemed to be: ‘Well, things are shit, but don’t worry they are going
election ever for Labour in England, a collapse for the Conservatives in their historic Blue Wall heartlands, and a brutal third place for Starmer’s party in Wales. > > One cannot overstate how seismic that result
strategy. "That is the election in which the SNP forms a minority government, is perceived as governing well, returns to power four years later and then negotiates with the UK government for a referendum
election comes very soon.” Maybe I will leave the last word to my colleague Jessica Elgot, who yesterday evening [posted these thoughts](https://x.com/jessicaelgot/status/2053829321135919324) she had received from an anonymous Labour MP: “We have
party losing hundreds of council seats across England. Investors calculated that some of the intense pressure on Starmer’s leadership had eased, as Labour appeared on track for [smaller losses than election experts had predicted
Starmer era. With the Conservatives and the Labour government now reduced to the mid-to-high teens in the polls, the economy on its knees, and anti-establishment sentiment growing across the political spectrum
strategy to offer voters “more than better management of decline” before the next general election. With Keir Starmer [fighting to ward off a leadership challenge](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/may/12/keir-starmer-prime-minister-resignation-labour-leadership-cabinet-meeting-yvette-cooper-shabana-mahmood-andy-burnham-wes-streeting-uk-politics-latest-news-updates), the leading backbenchers from the soft-left
Starmer will not lead the party into the next election. The group, which includes Unite, Unison and GMB, added "at some stage" a plan will have to be put in place for the election
strategy in No 10, speaks at [a Policy Exchange event](https://policyexchange.org.uk/events/project-2029-a-plan-to-reshape-britain/) on how to reshape Britain. *Afternoon:* Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, visits a synagogue in central London. *5pm:* Nigel Farage
Starmer’s leadership, saying he started to break his promises almost as soon as he became leader. “Keir was elected on a bunch of things he immediately reneged on,” she said. “He does not have
strategy has long been based on slow, careful targeting of areas where they reckon they might succeed, rather than concentrating on UK-wide momentum. One party source describes it as "tortoise and hare - maybe
Starmer and came to believe Burnham should be the next prime minister more than a year ago. The pair became close over the last two years, after Burnham, not Whitehall, came to his aide after
Starmer’s unpopularity proved an insurmountable obstacle for Sarwar, despite record donations to Scottish [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) and a formidable electoral machine, honed over the past five years. And with only a handful
strategy [by Labour] that refuses to acknowledge this skew towards the Greens, or that tries to dismiss them as crazies, is not going to work. The research [also found](https://bsky.app/profile/samfr.bsky.social/post/3mn7xaxbvzq2q) that Reform
election. Wes Streeting is a “huge political talent”. But overall, the intervention by the former prime minister almost feels designed to inflict maximum annoyance on his party, in terms of the content of the repeated
strategy takes time". The Conservatives' projected national share of the vote has increased slightly since this time last year, from 15% to 17% and the party managed to take Westminster council from Labour. But despite
strategy over how to respond and, if required, make the first phone call to a minister whom the prime minister wanted to resign. McSweeney [resigned as chief of staff](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/08/morgan-mcsweeney-resigns-as-keir-starmer-chief-of-staff) in February over