[jfman]

You are kidding yourself on if you think the Starmer government is in the pockets of trade unions.

Significant effort went into purging the party of any semblance of a left wing party. Despite the popularity - along the population at large - of some of the policies in previous manifestos.

I predict an extremely vanilla two years before being prodded into action by a slump in the polls. Whether that action is a lurch to the left or right is a toss of a coin.