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Politicians often promise what they can’t deliver, says Bagehot in The Economist. Normally that’s because they’re offering the prospect of “national glory or prosperity without pain”. Keir Starmer entered office with a pledge: to bring “calm”. Sadly for Starmer. “British politics is built for chaos.” Just 3 months after Labour secured its historic 180 seat majority, voters are in a “capricious mood”. According to some polls, Labour now sit just 4 points above the obliterated Conservatives.
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