Keir Starmer is a weak Prime Minister with no plan, no backbone and an incapacitated team around him. He is incapable of making the decisions needed.
Since he became Prime Minister he's broken promises on taxation and getting welfare spending under control.
And the Conservtives, under Kemi's strong leadership have worked with campaigners and businesses to force him into 12 U-turns on major issues when he has got things wrong.
See all of Keir's weak and wobbly U-turns below 👇:
Throughout the 2024 General Election Labour promised not to hike taxes on working people. However, Labour’s first two Budgets have increased taxes by £36 billion and £26 billion respectively, pushing the tax burden to a historic high of 38.3 per cent of GDP.
As well as breaking their tax promises, in July 2024 Labour broke faith with pensioners and snatched Winter Fuel Payments away from millions of poor and vulnerable pensioners. 330,000 people signed the petition to save Winter Fuel Payments, and this was backed up by Conservative campaigning in Parliament.
After 14 months of campaigning the Conservatives forced the Labour to U-turn and water down their Family Farm Tax. Farmers can now pass on £2.5 million in assets and allow spouses or civil partners to pass on up to £5 million in qualifying agricultural or business assets between them.
Despite victims calling for one, Keir Starmer used his supermajority to block a grooming gangs inquiry for six months. The Conservatives worked with victims and campaigners to force him into a U-turn, with an inquiry announced in June 2025. The fight for genuine justice remains.
Rather than work with Kemi Badenoch to deliver welfare savings in the national interest, in July 2025 Keir Starmer caved to his own backbenchers and abandoned incredibly moderate welfare reforms. Only the Conservatives have a clear plan to reform welfare, get people back into work and save taxpayers money.
Keir Starmer caved to his backbenchers again in November 2025 and scrapped the two-child benefit cap. Costing taxpayers £14 billion. Instead of controlling welfare spending and reinforcing the principle that work should pay, scrapping the cap will only push costs even higher.
In September 2025 Labour announced plans to introduce mandatory Digital ID. This was another plan Labour didn’t think through. And after months of Conservative pressure, Labour announced in January 2026 that their Digital ID would not be mandatory.
Keir Starmer and his frontbench used WASPI women as a political prop to win votes. Now Labour are in government, WASPI women have been betrayed, like so many others Labour promised the world to.
Labour initially dithered and delayed on much needed defence spending. It was only after Kemi Badenoch forced them into action that they announced a commitment to 3% of GDP on defence.
In November 2025 Rachel Reeves announced huge increases to business rates for pubs. Labour did partially U-turn on this plan, but the vast majority of pubs will still be paying far more in business rates under Labour. Many will sadly be forced to close their doors for good.
Labour’s Unemployment Act will impose 330 pages of red tape on employers and opens the door to waves of low turnout, short notice strikes. But Conservative peers forced a crucial change, the abandonment of "Day One Workers rights" that would have caused chaos for businesses.
Rachel Reeves promised not to freeze personal income tax thresholds beyond 2026. But in her November 2025 Budget she U-turned and broke this promise. Over the course of this Parliament this broken promise will cost workers thousands in extra taxes.
In March 2025 the Sentencing Council proposed absurd guidelines that would have handed harsher sentences to people based on ethnicity, religion, sex and cultural background. The Conservatives immediately highlighted how damaging this would be and we forced the government into another U-turn and the guidelines were suspended.
After Kemi Badenoch announced the Conservatives would restrict social media to those aged 16 and over, Labour announced a consultation of their own into this proposal.
In January 2026 Labour shamefully attempted to cancel elections in 30 local areas due to take place in May. But like nearly every decision the Prime Minister makes, he U-turned on it. This time after just 25 days. This is predictable chaos from a useless government that cannot make basic decisions.
David Lammy wanted to delete thousands of trial transcripts from Courtdesk. Including transcripts which were vital to exposing the shameful activities of grooming gangs here in the UK. And Labour have opened negotiations for a new licence to be agreed with Courtsdesk to preserve these vital court records
Wes Streeting wanted to subject 200 children to a dangerous medical trial which would have put some on a medical pathway to sterilisation. Working with brave campaigners like Kiera Bell, the Conservatives forced a pause to this dangerous trial. Our message is clear – no child is born in the wrong body.
In August 2025 Labour launched a consultation on closing post office branches. After over 180,000 petition signatures and extensive campaigning by Conservatives they U-turned and committed to keeping the number of branches at 11,500.
Only the Conservatives have the backbone and the united team to get Britain back on track. Find out more about our plan here.
