“But honestly, this is taking up a lot of my time,” he said.
“At the end of the day, I think implementation is the way forward. This is about dissatisfaction with politics, and easy answers are appealing if people don't think there are better answers. So progressives have to provide better answers.”
Politico reported last week that Starmer's strategy for tackling the far-right in the wake of the riots focuses on fairly mundane tackling everyday problems like potholes and hospital waiting times.
And once in Berlin, Labor's allies warned there were hard lessons to be learned from the German experience, particularly around environmental policies that would hit voters' wallets.
“Clearing out corruption”
Starmer's time in office has been extremely bleak so far, with him blaming the Conservative party for many of the UK's problems, accusing his predecessors of destroying the economy and creating a £22 billion budget surplus during their 14 years in power.
But if the British prime minister is to overcome the threat of the far right, he will need to deliver on his promise to turn things around by his own standards before the next general election, due within the next five years.
