Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast. So it's a new year.

It's a new Keir Starmer as he goes to Birmingham today and gives what he hopes is an agenda resetting speech.

This is what he had to say. When I reflect on previous Labour governments, I have two thoughts. The first is,

what a record we have. These three chapters of change, Atlee, Wilson and Blair, made Britain a better

country. We must be the people who write the fourth chapter,

the people who create a new Britain in the 21st century.

Isabel, what did you make of the speech? Well, he's talking a lot about Labour's contract with the British people.

And his argument is that he wants Labour to be forward-looking, not to talk so much about the past.

He's trying to answer some of the challenges that have been put to him by other people in Labour, by pollsters and so on,

which is that Labour has been, has become

very good at talking about how rubbish things are in Tory Britain over a very long time now,

and not so great at sounding optimistic about the future. And we did see a sort of preview of that

in his conference speech back in the autumn. This is him trying to flesh it out a little bit more.

One of the things he says is I'm well aware that just because the Tories lose the public's trust,

it doesn't mean labour simply inherits it. Trust has to be earned. I am confident but not

complacent about the task ahead. But I think it's still light on the detail of what he sees that

task as being and what sort of shape

Labour will be in to attract voters in the way that he describes. So he does accept, I think,

that he has probably just been feasting on the misfortune of the Conservative Party and now is

the time to explain to voters why they should back

Labour rather than just abandon the Tories. But beyond the sort of broad brush contract that

he talks about and he again talks about the importance of patriotism, which some in the Labour

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