Britain’s Prime Minister informed the nation that “things are worse than we ever imagined”, as he made an address today from the very spot in Downing Street’s rose garden where Boris Johnson held his infamous wine and cheese lockdown party 32 months ago.
In a column for The Times, Starmer explained that the “symbolic” venue was chosen to deliberately juxtapose Labour’s “service-oriented” government with the “self-centred” and hypocritical Tory administrations of the past, and to signal that Downing Street, and its garden, were back in the service of the public.
Rather than rousing Britons towards unity, trust, and a brighter future under a new government though, the actual address fell flat against the floral backdrop, as the platitude-ridden lecture came off as deflective, thorny, and mired in history.
