Highs and lows of Five-Year Keir: The PM's journey from Doughty Street to Downing Street
Sir Keir Starmer's first five years as Labour Party leader have seen dramatic highs and lows - but the next five will perhaps be even more challenging.
To win the backing of left-wing Labour activists, he backed a wealth tax on the top 5% of earners, abolishing university tuition fees, nationalising water and energy and restoring freedom of movement between the UK and EU countries. Whatever happened to those promises?
Presumably that's where some of the highs are, lying to the rabble, but it's a bit of a stretch. There are attempts to paint Starmer as a capable international statesman, but it's all very thin and mainly based on his attempts to sidle past Brexit, in his freebie trousers perhaps?
Though the UK is no longer in the EU, Sir Keir has forged strong alliances with European leaders - particularly France's President Macron - as he attempts to build a "coalition of the willing" to defend Ukraine. And he has won the trust of Ukraine's President Zelenskyy.
Though the UK is no longer in the EU, Sir Keir has forged strong alliances with European leaders - particularly France's President Macron - as he attempts to build a "coalition of the willing" to defend Ukraine. And he has won the trust of Ukraine's President Zelenskyy.
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I tried reading the whole article, but gave up as it doesn't have the ring of truth about it, to say the least.
Suppose that a political journalist understood (along with the rest of us) that Starmer is a malevolent incompetent chancer. And then suppose that he couldn't actually state that, because he wants to keep his job and maintain access to Starmer and his circle of minders. He'd write that sort of article, I guess.
Wise words from Chichester.
Sam - that's how I read it and found it mildly interesting for that reason. The ring of truth isn't there because it can't be, because of what Starmer is. Yet the piece has to be churned out.
James - I agree.
Le petit Micron is hated by his true compatriots. So no wonder that he and Surkeir hang together.
Doonhamer - yes, that's what it's like to be Billy One Mate.
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