Mick Hartley

Unsurprisingly even a leadership coup seems beyond the capabilities of Labour at the moment. A Keep Starmer sentiment appears to be on the rise. Juliet Samuel in the Times – Labour’s lemmings will regret their big jump:.

I never thought they’d get to this point but if there’s one thing I feel sure about, it’s that they are making a mistake. Look at the likely candidates to replace their useless prime minister. There’s Wes Streeting, whose every syllable reeks of triangulating guile; Angela Rayner, whose only true political passion is yelling at poshos; Ed Miliband (God help us), a man so far down the rabbit hole of climate millenarianism that he’d rather suffocate than turn around; and the seat-less Andy Burnham, of whom the best that can be said is we shouldn’t attach too much meaning to anything he says, because he certainly doesn’t.