I know very well a lot of posters here are not going to like Starmer's paper at all, but to my mind it is written for only one major purpose: to address the charge "no one knows what Labour/Starmer stand for."   You may well not like the answer he has given, but I think it goes a good way towards answering that charge. Many points in his position are open to interpretation, but so are all similar political statements of stance.

He will have to defend and elaborate each of his ten principles from those further left in the party and from the Tories, but at least these is now greater clarity of what those principles are. To that extent, I think it a significant step forward.