Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images To be fair to Keir Starmer, he was always clear that the thing to do was to reset. In his first speech on the steps of Downing Street, after the landslide victory of July 2024, he told the nation: “our country needs a bigger reset”. By December of the same year the main thing that had been reset was Starmer’s approval rating, which was lower than any other Prime Minister (five months in) since polling began. Despite having been elected on a Manifesto for Change, little had changed, and therefore a Plan for Change – a reset! The biggest reset in a generation! – was needed. By September 2025, however, it was clear that the Plan for Change had been more of a Plan and less of a Change, and therefore a reset of  that  reset – “phase two”, Starmer called it – was needed. This was followed by a more specific “Brexit reset” in January of this year.…