Though Starmer’s project is fragile, he’s taking one giant leap: to reconfigure the British state | Martin Kettle

Keir Starmer is expected to set out plans for the most radical restructuring of the British state in decades .

His central contention is that, although the civil service today is larger than ever, it is far less effective and trusted.

More than 5 million people are now employed in central and local government service, including NHS .

Labour believes in the power of the state to make lives better, but the state has to change.

The test of any policy and speech is whether it can be put into practice as smoothly as possible and produces desirable results for citizens.

But the government faces big problems, such as comparisons with Elon Musk and Javier Milei .