Starmer wants us to believe we can trust politicians again.

The Tories are in denial about the crisis in politics. Labour seems to get it. But voters will punish any government that doesn’t follow through on its word

On the other side of the Atlantic, in an act of shocking irresponsibility, the US supreme court has ruled that the president is above the law. On this side of the ocean, however, something diametrically opposite lies in store for Britain.

The US is a republic that has, in effect, just given itself an elected monarch who will be free to act as he or she pleases. The UK, by contrast, is a monarchy that is about to declare itself the closest thing to a republic of virtue since Cromwellian times.

Martin Kettle is a Guardian columnist