You can't prove that you're tough against a completely made-up threat because the people stoking fear & those responding to it don't live in reality. Treating the electorate like a delirious elderly relative whose hallucinations you have to continually humour is a bizarre strategy.
Realistically, we need to encourage the egg stealing attic goblins to unionize.
People universally want a lower cost of living when it comes to groceries, lower energy bills, & an NHS that works. Starmer has decided to lead with criminalising protesting genocide while lionising gangs of spouse-abusing racists. The polls reflect the wisdom of this strategy.
At some point you have to accept no one capable of forming a sentence could be this thick. With 4 years left & a massive majority, if all your major policy moves are about appeasing bigots... you may be a bigot. Who actually likes transphobia & self-destructive isolationism for their own sakes.