QOSHE - Alison Rowat: Thanks to Starmer, everything's coming up roses - for the SNP And just like that we were back in 2009, with a Labour government in power, Oasis set to go off on tour, and the sun shining (except for viewers in Scotland). Happy days were here again in Downing Street. Except they were not. Yes, the Gallagher brothers are getting back together, making a lot of middle-aged people very happy. And yes, that was a Labour prime minister holding court, but unlike Oasis he was not the bringer of good news. Sir Keir Starmer had discovered a problem, quite a few of them as it turns out, and wanted a word. The gist of it was that during the election campaign he had been careful not to promise voters a rose garden. One or two nice blooms, certainly, but nothing Chelsea-standard. Yet when he walked into Downing Street he discovered the previous occupants had taken or killed most of the roses and left the manure.