Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party never promised much excitement. What it did seem to offer was stability and grown-up government, sorely lacking under recent Conservative predecessors. This week’s self-generated crisis over the prime minister’s leadership and a startling Budget U-turn have shredded Labour’s claim to quiet competence. They ratchet up the jeopardy around a Budget that was already crucial to the government’s fortunes and those of the country.
基爾?斯塔默爵士(Sir Keir Starmer)領導的工黨從未承諾帶來多少激情；它看似提供的是在近來保守黨政府所欠缺的穩定與成熟治理。本周圍繞首相領導力的自我制造危機，以及令人錯愕的預算大轉彎，撕碎了工黨對“沉穩稱職”的主張。它們放大了圍繞這份預算的風險——而這份預算本已對政府與國家的前景至關重要。
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