The Guardian view on Starmer’s choices: time to be bold | Editorial

Navigating a ‘new era’, the government must shed some of its old assumptions and begin to hug Europe closeIn his speech to the Labour party conference in 2005, Sir Tony Blair used a seasonal analogy to make the case for embracing disruptive but inevitable change. “I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalisation,” the Labour leader told delegates. “You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer.”Twenty years on, to quote the billionaire