Below is what the 1997 Labour Manifesto said about the first 100 days of a Labour Government.
Changing things bit by bit via reform takes time and can be frustratingly slow as Blair found out. He decided foreign interventions had a more immediate, albeit,disastrous impact.
At Labour’s Business meeting at the Oval on 1st February Starmer also raised the 100 days issue but he is no great communicator and so essentially waffled about setting the tone, as a new CEO might.
Even so Labour did actually do things in the period after 1997 that the Tories did not like such as the introduction of the National Minimum Wage and an Employment Relations Act that made modest progress in rebalancing workplace relations towards workers and unions.
Both of these issues are on Starmer’s agenda still but how long will they remain so. Will they make it to the first 100 days?
That is why we have made it our guiding rule not to promise what we cannot deliver; and to deliver what we promise. What follows is not the politics of a 100 days that dazzles for a time, then fizzles out. It is not the politics of a revolution, but of a fresh start, the patient rebuilding and renewing of this country – renewal that can take root and build over time.
Labour Party Manifesto 1997
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