UK’s Starmer looks to move on from clumsy first 100 days

This weekend commemorates UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s 100 days in office. He has already begun trying to revitalize his new Labour government after a shaky comeback after 14 years in opposition.

Starmer’s personal poll ratings have plummeted in the first few weeks of his administration due to controversy over gifts given to ministers and a reduction in welfare payments for millions of retirees.

In addition, he has been accused of deterring foreign investment by continuously accusing the previous Conservative government of leaving Labour with a disastrous economic legacy and ominously predicting more suffering to come.

“It hasn’t gone well,” said Steven Fielding, a political scientist at the University of Nottingham and the author of multiple books about the Labour Party.

“If this is a start of a march towards (Starmer’s pledge of) national renewal, the first footsteps were very uncertain,” he stated to AFP.

Observers point out that the initial errors were mostly self-inflicted: neglecting to end the “freebies” controversy and misjudging the outrage caused by the removal of winter heating payments for 10 million senior citizens.

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