Keir Starmer’s government is becoming a crisis regime

Downing Street is an outdated, creaking operation with nothing like the expertise or serious grip of Whitehall .

Downing Street insiders know they need to think differently and move fast to survive.

As the crisis tightens, previous thinking is jettisoned.

Defence replacing net zero as the core of the industrial strategy.

Labour MPs are talking openly about challenging Article of the European Convention on Human Rights .

We should expect a major cabinet reshuffle in the summer , the fallout from which could be serious.

Some liberal-minded Labour MPs, as well as left-wing ones, are deeply worried about the government’s direction.

It is possible that Starmer achieves his ambition of a smaller but more effective government.

To govern is to hope, however, to keep reacting, keep changing and keep fighting.