Sir Keir Starmer all but admitted he needed to up his act as he took the stage at Pinewood Studios

LIGHTS, camera… Inaction!

Taking to the stage at Pinewood Studios – the home of Bond, Star Wars and Mission: Impossible – Sir Keir Starmer all but admitted he needed to up his act.

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Keir Starmer on stage at Pinewood Studios, dishing up a minestrone of milestones, missions, tepid baths, gauntlets, pillars, goals, foundations and first steps[/caption]

No10 spinners were clever enough to avoid the “surely shome mistakes” headlines by swerving the Sean Connery Studio.

But no PM wants to be having to explain the point of their government just 20 weeks in office.

Sadly yesterday was a minestrone of milestones, missions, tepid baths, gauntlets, pillars, goals, foundations and first steps.

Big issues were shelved, and parts of the speech sounded suspiciously like they had been written by AI or a graduate management consultant who had swallowed a thesaurus.

Yet buried deep was an important concession.

Sir Keir, always so quick to carp from the opposition side-lines as Captain Hindsight, admitted the Whitehall system itself must share some of the blame for the state Britain is in.

Better late than never, PM… but its going to take more than this word soup to turn things around.