UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has launched a fresh attempt to reboot his ailing government at a six-hour cabinet meeting, held against a bleak economic backdrop and crumbling public support.
Starmer admitted his administration had been too slow, too cautious and risked being left behind by world events, telling ministers at a special meeting on Friday in Lancaster House: “We can either be the disrupters or the disrupted.”
At the end of a week which saw the Bank of England halve its growth forecasts for 2025 and the populist Reform UK party overtake Labour in a YouGov poll, Starmer’s allies said the prime minister had made “a passionate call to increase the pace of change”.