Sir Keir Starmer and his cabinet (Image: The Independent) Former Home Secretary, David Blunkett has summarised the first nine months of this Labour Party government best. When he appeared recently on BBC Radio 4's Today Podcast , he praised Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on his handling of areas such as international diplomacy, as well as some domestic policies. The key improvement needed moving forward, to do better on 'spin'. Blunkett compared how easy the Prime Minister he worked under, Tony Blair, had it in his first years in the late 1990s compared to Starmer's in the present day - and although Blair announced similarly challenging and seemingly unpopular policies, such as the introduction to university tuition fees, he was able to still get on the side of the UK public, which is an area you could argue that Starmer is struggling with. When you listen to Blunkett, you could tell he wanted to avoid saying the word 'spin', as it is deemed a derogatory term ...