I watched Keir Starmer give his ‘imaginative and prescient speech’ this morning.

My preliminary reactions have been tweeted as follows:

The sound high quality all through this broadcast was dire: Labour actually has to get the fundamentals proper.

That mentioned: Starmer beat Sunak palms down on presentation.

Content material was one other challenge. On this I famous the next because the speech progressed:

Bluntly the speech was just about devoid of content material, excepting his one huge concept, which was round devolution. The premise of this was nonetheless o0wrrying. As I famous earlier than he received to the problem:

I ought to maybe have added ‘present’ earlier than devolution in that second tweet.

As I additionally famous:

I summarised this saying:

Indisputably this was a greater speech than Sunak’s, however there have been huge points, ;like these:

In abstract, I posted this:

The presentation was vastly higher than Sunak’s.

And perhaps there was a bit extra substance.

However was this a imaginative and prescient for a authorities? It fell very, very far in need of that.

I’ll have extra to say on what that imaginative and prescient must be quickly, I hope.