His concerns the gathering would turn into a \u201cre-tread of 1999\u201d \u2014\u00a0when the socially liberal PM Tony Blair was in power \u2014 had been assuaged. It \u201chasn\u2019t turned out that way at all,\u201d he said heralding Mahmood\u2019s \u201cbrave\u201d speech on the importance of borders and sovereignty.<\/p>\n
Starmer needed to be given the space to \u201cgrow,\u201d he said, claiming it would have been\u00a0\u201cinconceivable\u201d a year ago that the prime minister would have been talking about stopping the boats and appointing\u00a0Mahmood as home secretary.<\/p>\n
\u201cConference is very calm. All that noise has died down.\u00a0It\u2019s not let Keir be Keir the human rights lawyer. It is Keir the prime minister who promoted Shabana Mahmood to be home secretary,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Broad church\u00a0<\/p>\n
Starmer, whose political shape-shifting was crucial to his election as party leader in 2020, used his speech to argue for a return to the center ground, aiming his fire at opponents on both the right and left of politics who argue there lies a\u00a0\u201cquick fix\u201d in tax cuts or wealth taxes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can all see these snake oil merchants on the right, on the left, but be in no doubt, conference, none one of them have any interest in national renewal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Morgan McSweeney, Starmer\u2019s top and closest aide has been on board with a more progressive pivot, one think tanker, who has a close relationship with No. 10 Downing Street, said. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His concerns the gathering would turn into a \u201cre-tread of 1999\u201d \u2014\u00a0when the socially liberal PM Tony Blair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19306,627,628,9610,461,59,57,58,2795,6800,420,50,633,470,72363,18638,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-171166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-andy-burnham","9":"tag-david-lammy","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-ed-miliband","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-gb","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-greatbritain","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-joe-biden","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-rights","22":"tag-shabana-mahmood","23":"tag-tony-blair","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}