这位首相或许给人的印象是个好人，但在政治上却毫不留情。如果他想将空话转化为实际行动，就必须如此。工党政府究竟能在多大程度上改变这个国家呢？
The PM might come across as a nice bloke but he is politically ruthless. He will need to be if he is to turn big talk into big changes How much can a Labour government change the country?
根据许多选民、记者和政客（包括工党内部的许多人）的看法，这个反复出现的问题答案始终是：改变有限。
According to many voters, journalists and politicians, including plenty in the party itself, the answer to that stubbornly recurring question has always been: not that much.
工党政府无法重组经济、彻底重新分配财富、真正帮助弱势群体，也无法制定真正符合道德标准的对外政策，因为这会得罪太多有权势的利益集团——从英国的富人到美国政府，再到全球金融市场。
Labour governments can’t restructure the economy, radically redistribute wealth, truly empower the disadvantaged or adopt a genuinely ethical foreign policy without upsetting too many powerful interests, from the British rich to the US government to global financial markets.
这种根深蒂固的传统观念——不仅左翼、中间派和右翼都有这种看法——一直困扰着许多工党政府，从20世纪20年代的最初尝试，到一个世纪后凯尔·斯塔默勤勉却失败的执政时期。
This endlessly repeated conventional wisdom – internalised by some on the left as well as centrists and the right – has haunted many Labour governments, from the first, tentative ones in the 1920s to Keir Starmer’s diligent but failed administration a century later.
然而，在像当前这样充满不确定性的时期，传统观念可能是错误的，因为过去的先例可能不再具有参考价值。安迪·贝克特是《卫报》的专栏作家。
Yet conventional wisdom can be wrong, especially in volatile periods such as the current one, when precedent may count for little. Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist