Exclusive: Sir Keir Starmer’s flagship mission boards have been quietly abolished or have stopped meeting entirely in the dying weeks of his failed premiership.
Starmer’s mission boards quietly abandoned (Image: Getty)
Outgoing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will leave office with his flagship ‘mission boards’ being kicked aside in the dying weeks of his premiership.
Sir Keir swept into power in 2024 promising a “mission driven government” built around five Mission Boards he personally vowed to chair.
But the Daily Express can now reveal that the much trumpeted project has been stripped back and dismantled piece by piece.
First, Sir Keir dropped his promise to chair the boards himself, palming them off instead to individual Cabinet ministers.
Then, in November 2025, they were quietly stripped of their status as Cabinet Committees, in what Westminster sources say was the very power that had let them make binding decisions.
Now it has been revealed that all five boards have either been abolished or have not met at all since that downgrade.
Parliamentary questions showed that the grandly named ‘Safer Streets Mission Board’ has not met since last November.
And then Clean Energy Superboard has also failed to convene.
The economic growth board was replaced by a separate committee, with ministers giving vague answers on the future of the NHS and Opportunity boards.
Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart said Sir Keir had “promised change and stability, but his premiership has been defined by scandal and failure”.
He added: “His much-vaunted ‘missions’ were never more than a slogan. The very structures created to deliver them have now been quietly abandoned, weeks before this failing Government reaches its end.”
Burghart: Missions were never more than a slogan (Image: Getty)
Mr Burghart said only the Conservatives, “under new leadership”, had “a plan to restore common sense governance, rebuild public confidence and get Britain working again”.
A Government spokesman insisted the missions remained a priority.
They said: “We remain committed to delivering on the big issues facing the British people, from the economy and the cost of living, to safer streets and NHS waiting lists.”
The spokesman added that Mission Boards “continue to be a forum that the relevant Secretaries of State across government can utilise”.