Keir Starmer hasn't had much of a summer honeymoon.
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, after talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday Aug. 28, 2024. erupted across the country. He has spent his first weeks in office dealing with the aftermath, and issuing stark warnings about the state of the nation and the economy.
During the election campaign, Starmer vowed to get the country’s sluggish economy growing and restore frayed public services such as the state-funded Conservative economy spokeswoman Laura Trott accused Starmer and his government of trying to “run from responsibility for the tax rises they always planned but hid from the public during the election.”
Amid alarm from some Labour lawmakers about the gloomy messaging, the government is now trying to sound more positive. It notes that in his first weeks in office, Starmer scrapped the Conservatives’ stalled and controversial plan to send some asylum-seekers who arrive in the U.K. to Rwanda, struck deals with public-sector unions to end a wave of strikes and began to mend fences with the European Union after years of acrimony over Britain’s departure from the bloc.
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