‘We need real change, not fiddling at the edges’: voters on Labour’s first year | Labour

For Aiden Robertson, a 35-year-old consultant from Burnley, Labour’s first year back in government can only be summed up as “incredibly disappointing”.

The year had been marked, he felt, by “dreadful communication, a lack of clear purpose, zero vision”, while Labour had been “pandering to Reform voters who will never back them”.

“This just feels like continuity Tories. As a man who has voted Labour at every single election since 2010, this is the first time where I now feel I can no longer support them.”

Robertson was among hundreds of people who shared their verdict of Keir Starmer’s first year in No 10 with the Guardian.

The responses – many of them excoriating – hammered home why the government is struggling to win the approval of a deeply divided public. While…