Does anyone still think Starmer will fight the 2029 GE? I’m still not quite sure when he will go, but I simply can’t see this now. He is far too wounded on too many fronts to face the electorate agai… (View Post)

What Starmer can’t admit (because in hindsight it looks like a shockingly bad and maybe career-ending decision) is that he needed an ambassador to the US that he felt could do business with Trump, an… (View Post)

The problem for Starmer is that the contours of the whole matter are now incredibly problematic. He probably did as well as he could do today given that he is in a very difficult place. Reading betwe… (View Post)

The critical point here is that Starmer has admitted that the vetting raised Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein. (View Post)

This won’t see off Starmer (at least not yet) unless something mortifyingly embarrassing comes out of the vetting disclosures (eg a “this is a really high risk appointment you need to think super-car… (View Post)