Give him his due: Keir Starmer still knows how to surprise us.
When faced with local and devolved election results that presented an existential threat, both to him as Prime Minister and to his party, he rose to the challenge and… appointed two relics of New Labour as advisers.
Don’t get me wrong, Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman are highly regarded in the party, one as a former chancellor and prime minister and the other as a long-serving (and long-suffering) deputy leader. But what on earth is the question to which they are the answer?
Starmer’s stale and ailing administration needs an injection
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