Keir Starmer Is Doing What the Conservatives 'Only Ever Talked About'

What is the point of a Labour Government that takes a 'chainsaw' to support for the disabled while targeting vulnerable refugees?

“I appreciate it must be so painful for the Conservative party watching a Labour Government doing the things they only ever talked about,” Wes Streeting told Tory MPs this week.

“Reducing the size of bloated state bureaucracy… bringing down the welfare bill. The public is asking ‘What is the point of the Conservative party?’”

The Health Secretary has a point. In recent weeks Keir Starmer’s Government has announced plans to cut benefits for the disabled, slash international aid, and ban refugees from ever gaining UK citizenship.

In every case the plans raised by ministers have gone beyond anything attempted by the last Conservative government.

As Streeting suggests, where the Conservatives talked, Labour have acted.

And it’s not just the Conservatives that Starmer’s Government appears set on outdoing, but Donald Trump too.

In a piece analysing what Government insiders described as their version of Elon Musk’s “Operation Chainsaw”, The Spectator magazine this week praised ministers for going where even the Trump administration has yet to tread.

“Keir Starmer’s imminent attempt to curb Britain’s spending on welfare is a more serious and important bid to curb the growth of government than Elon Musk’s theatrical Doge performance,” the magazine gushed.