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The fightback

A spate of interviews around Starmer’s first anniversary as PM have shown him to be in a reflective mood.

He admitted his Downing Street garden warning had “squeezed the hope out,” adding: “We were so determined to show how bad it was that we forgot people wanted…

There are several reasons for this: A generalized mood of discontent with politics; the scrambling of the old left-right divide; the weakness of the incumbent president, who can neither run again nor readily influence the choice of his successor; as well as the global, economic and political…

“Amnesties and pardons do not align with the government’s vision of a modern state,” said Rastrelli, arguing that such measures offer only short-term relief without addressing deeper systemic issues. “They erode the certainty of punishment, which undermines citizens’ sense of legal…