A month into the Iran war and the prime minister, on a visit to Finland with allies in the Joint Expeditionary Forces military coalition this week, left me in no doubt that he believes our lives, our country and the way we do things, is about to profoundly change.
This is a “once in a generation moment” that is going to shape the next decades of our lives, Keir Starmer told me as part of a longer-than-normal interview for our Electoral Dysfunction podcast, as he reflected on the global turbulence and how the outlook for Britain’s economy had changed so massively in such a short period of time.
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We also touched on the turbulent times he has faced in recent weeks, be that around the prospect of a leadership challenge or the Peter Mandelson crisis that he told me he “beats himself up about it” in a genuinely emotional moment of our conversation.
What I took from this interview is a prime minister rolling the pitch for another difficult stretch for a country already ground down by crises…
