Keir Starmer Tells His Party 'It's The Economy, Stupid'. But Will The Voters Listen?
Updated 19/02/2021 07:19 GMT Keir Starmer Tells His Party ‘It’s The Economy, Stupid’. But Will The Voters Listen? Covid fog has made it even tougher to climb Labour’s electoral mountain. Keir Starmer’s Big Speech mentioned the word “business” 22 times, “future” 19 times and “security” or “secure” 17 times. Those are crude metrics, but they give a sense of his priorities as he tried to use the half-term lull in Covid news to talk about politics beyond the pandemic: Labour’s changed and the country needs to change too. While Starmer’s main aim w...