There has been media speculation about what a Starmer Government might do in the first 100 days of Government. Not much seems to be the official Labour answer but at the moment the pledge to repeal the Tory attack on the right to strike remains.
We can look back 100 years to the first Labour Goverment elected in January 1924 that lasted nine months. Its record in that brief period tends to be clouded by what happened during and after the next period of Labour Government in 1929.
In reality February 1924 saw MacDonald’s Government make some mildy progressive changes- along with, for example, some reactionary positions on trade union action ahead of the 1926 General Strike
1st February Government recognises the Soviet Union
12th February Government rescinds the Poplar Order, which had led to Labour Councillors being jailed for paying above the approved poor rate in East London
21st February MacDonald as Foreign Secretary cancels plans for a Singapore naval base
Starmer will do well to do anything as a radical-modest though it was
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