Keir Starmer told me he’d met every challenge. But things look bad right now

Will Keir Starmer allow him to celebrate his first anniversary as prime minister this weekend? Or will he give a long, hard look in the mirror and ask him what’s going wrong with himself?

This week, this is what I have in mind because he greet me in the cooked earth chamber on the first floor of the 10 Downing Street for a long time planned about the first 12 months this week.

Considering that Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, was in tears sitting behind him a few hours ago, he looks surprisingly comfortable. This triggered the fever speculation carrying markets to sell pounds, to sell pounds and to increase the cost of borrowing.

Perhaps this is the impression that he wants to convey to me while sharing a story about the photo opportunity with Formula 1 cars, the world’s most famous gate.

Starmer, the problems of recent weeks – and his son is a long list – it is determined that he will not overshadow the achievements he believes.

“We’ve done some great things,” he says to me, “He really lasted the waiting lists in NHS, what we can do in schools and children really made a lot of improvements – you want school meals, breakfast clubs, and also [brought in] A large amount of investment in the country. And of course we were busy making three trade agreements. “

Given the chance, it is clear that the list will continue. And still, I’m pointing out, there’s another long list – the things he agreed to do wrong soon.

Last year, Starmer said that it was wrong to hire former Chief of General Staff Sue Gray, who left Downing Street in October. He also held his hands about his plans to terminate winter fuel payments, refuse the national grooming gang investigation and reduce benefits for disabled people. This is not even a full list, but a few things he agrees to be a mistake.

The Prime Minister thinks that I roughly summarize that he may have done his personal thoughts better. He challenges the idea that it represents the weakness of changing your mind or represents the “humiliating U -turn” in Westminster.

This was expanded for my Podcast for my political thinking and we sat for the fourth time for a personal speech.

“You know that to know me,” he says. “I am not one of these ideological thinkers dictated what ideology has done.

“Someone says to me, ‘Here’s a little more information and I think it’s the right thing,’ I am a person who says, ‘Let’s do it in this case’.”

However, undoubtedly, a large part of the welfare reforms was an U -turn – an expensive and humiliating thing. Starmer and the chancellor not only lose authority and face, but they lost 5 billion pounds in planned savings, somehow something that should be paid by extra borrowing, lower expenditure, or most likely higher taxes.

“I take responsibility,” he says, “We did not understand the process correctly”. However, somehow implies that the Labor Party’s responsibility to persuade workers’ deputies to support their plans may be one other than the leader.

By making the process correctly, he does not explain what he meant, and perhaps more importantly, he survives my attempts to clearly explain what story he tries to tell the country about the benefits.

Is labor with people with disabilities and people like their own mother, and this means a disabled disease that means that the leg should be cut? Or should he adopt the reluctance to be written when we last talked about? When he said he wouldn’t walk again by his doctors, he refused to listen.

Starmer, who was injured by the events of last week, refuses to deal with this election. But of course, I recommend it to him, does the nation just want a problem solvent or the general manager of the UK PLC? Does the voters definitely want a leader with a story to tell?

Starmer clearly knew that this problem – or a variation – came. When we talked for a long time, I pushed him.

“It’s about a passion, if that’s the right word, or he says. “But it is certainly the determination to change the lives of millions of people who work, and in particular this justice problem.”

“Almost like a social contract,” he adds, “People take back what they put, for them there is a more fair environment that supports and respects them.”

It is a bit long to sew on a flag of selection, chant on the streets or write an article on x, but it’s a theme. He is a self -proclaiming pragmatist who does not want something to be labeled as “starry”, but at least we can now say that the guiding principle is justice.

Each every difficulty in front of me, I have risen, I met him, and we will continue in the same way, or he says.

I finish our conversation by reminding him what they say about the failed football managers who “lost the locker room”. Did the Labor Party lost the locker room? Emphasis on the answer.

“Absolutely no,” he says. “Worker dressing room, PLP is as proud as the hell of what we do, and their disappointment – my frustration – sometimes other things will be an example, he can hide our ability to take it there.”

“I am a bastard that is difficult enough to find out who is saying, so I can make a discussion with him.” Knowing Starmer, I suspect that the possibility of fighting a crunch in the field is more than a quiet word.

But the Prime Minister’s message is clear to me: don’t count me, but now it looks bad. It looks bad for almost everyone right now. Too bad.