Fifteen months on from a landslide election victory, even some of Sir Keir Starmer’s closest allies say they still don’t know what he stands for.

His big eve-of-conference announcement, reviving a Tony Blair-era policy to introduce a digital ID, simply confirmed what some MPs had already suspected. This floundering administration has no driving narrative, with Starmer listening to whichever advisor last had his ear.

The vacuum left by several recent key departures has led to a fresh power struggle in No 10 between senior advisers who are vying for influence .

Last week Starmer’s head of communications, Steph Driver, a loyalist who had served him in opposition, quit. She is a rare combination, as both her staff and journalists like her, but she was demoted after New Labour comms vete

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