Why persist in a job that gives him no pleasure and serves no higher ideological goal? It’s not even as if he is the champion of a Labour faction in the way that Blair, Brown and Corbyn were.
The Labour leader is a pragmatist who is well able to justify Conservative plans when he thinks they will work.
The former Labour leader, now expelled from the party, is held in deep affection by his constituents, who intend to turn out and vote for him.
Farage too receives a respectful hearing, but only one definite Conservative was found.
“I think if Boris was still in I’d vote for Boris, obviously,” a Hartlepudlian said. “He was dopey but he was our dopey.”
Nick Boles has set a trend in Cameron-era figures defecting to, advising, or praising the Labour leadership. To what end?
Over this period, the UK’s economic growth was level with the US’s and exceeded the other five members of the G7. In other words, on international comparisons, we did well.
The last two weeks have not covered the Conservative Party in glory, and have distracted from Starmer’s own problems.
We need to reconnect with 51 per cent of voters pronto. Just not with a pink bus or targeted manifesto.
Who is enjoying his discomfort? Labour, the LibDems, Macron, Rejoiners, woke academics – everyone, in short, who wants to see Brexit Britain fail.
Attempts to push people on to technical courses at local further education colleges, among other proposals, could backfire.
‘Let their frail elderly be unvisited in care homes. Let their weddings be postponed’, is the message of this Prime Minister.
Leavers and Remainers have been premature to judge this major constitutional change.
Like the Tories under Boris, modern Labour can’t seem to make up its mind on what it fundamentally stands for or who it governs for.