The Farage effect: why Keir Starmer is styling Labour as the ‘disruptors’

From the third runway to Rosebank, the party is rethinking policies, amid the threat of Reform and return of Trump

It only takes a quick look at today's poll by Opinium for the Observer to see why a big tactical rethink (some in the Labour party call it a panic) is under way in Downing Street.

In the space of a couple of weeks, the Labour high-command has morphed from being a risk-averse, technocratic operation which said and did very little that was interesting in order to win power - and did little more in the first six months after taking it - into something else entirely.