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This is what everyone was promised only a year ago.

Now our country has voted decisively for change,

for national renewal and a return of politics to public service.

But life for our new government has turned out to be slightly more complicated than that.

Mistake after mistake after mistake. There is no plan to get people into work.

There is no plan to cut the welfare budget. There is no strategy. There is just a series of humiliating U-turns like Winterfield, like grooming gangs.

There are probably four years still to go. So, with historically low popularity, a third U-turn in as many months, and still no real story about what this government of change is here to do, can Keir get back in gear?

I'm John Harris and you're listening to Politics Weekly UK for The Guardian.

Joining me today are the host of Politics Weekly Westminster.

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