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By Andy Silvester It is hard to imagine a more friendly wicket for Keir Starmer to have turned up to at Labour conference. A party broadly united behind him, and a government that (fairly or unfairly) is being blamed left, right and centre for precipitating a currency crisis and a drastic increase in the value of borrowing. We are now less than two years out until the next election – truly, we’re spoilt – and the Labour leader is now speaking not to his party but the nation at large. Was his speech to that Labour conference yesterday a pitch to the centre ground? Yes. Was it a damning indictme…