Starmer should not be the fall guy for Labour’s failures. This disaster was written by committee | Owen Jones

Since the July general election, Labour has lost 22 seats.

Starmer has the worst net satisfaction of any prime minister minus 34 in the history of Ipsos polling.

He is polling 12 points lower than the doomed Rishi Sunak was at the same point in his tenure.

Labour is now polling in the mid-20s, both Tories and Reform nipping at its heels.

A coherent economic agenda that speaks to the country’s woes could offer an alternative to Reform .

But Starmer 's allies are ideologically opposed to this, so instead they seem determined to compete with the populist right on migrant-bashing.

The left needs to present a clear coherent vision, and fight to set the political agenda.