LET’S start with the obvious: unless the Conservatives decide to celebrate their crash in the opinion polls with another leadership election, Sir…
LET’S start with the obvious: unless the Conservatives decide to celebrate their crash in the opinion polls with another leadership election, Sir Keir Starmer is going to be the UK’s next prime minister.
There is no evidence for this proposition. Indeed, the evidence suggests Sunak is an enthusiastic culture warrior who shares the values of the woman he made Home Secretary. The idea supposedly “centrist” Tory PMs have secret doubts and private reservations about their government’s policy isn’t new., and Boris Johnson to a lesser extent.
But whether you support or reject the approach Starmer has brought to the Labour Party – the purges, the message discipline, the policy reversals – he’s patently not a “pretty straight kind of guy”. Perverse as it probably sounds, some folk like lying politicians. The starting point for much of the British media and for the right of the Labour Party is that hoodwinking the left into supporting him and then pissing all over them from a great height is the peak of tactical brilliance and ruthless cunning.
Politicians like Peter Mandelson and George Osborne thrived on the idea that they were masterly proponents of political cynicism and the black arts of PR – and made no effort to hide how delighted they were with the fearsome reputations they cultivated., in his pomp, had a similar quality. Craftiness and the knack for a cutting put-down won’t make every voter warm to you – but there’s a constituency for this edgier kind of political performance.
Starmer’s march to power has had a number of low moments – but his LBC interview on Gaza and subsequent attempts to deny the evidence of our own senses about what he said about how Israel is entitled to defend itself may be the lowest so far.
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