Podbit · The Rest Is Politics
By using the NEC to block Andy Burnham from standing in Gordon and Denton, Keir Starmer broke the cardinal rule: if you strike at the king, you must kill him. Having failed once to neutralise Burnham, he cannot now control him.
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Rory Stewart is unsparing: Keir Starmer cannot win the next election. He is not a winning phenomenon, his net popularity is terrible, he cannot make a speech, and in every room Rory visits nobody can articulate his economic policy. The analogy is stark — the ship is heading into the iceberg, and while getting off and boarding lifeboats may not work, there is no case for staying with Starmer. He is equally direct about what made Burnham's campaign impressive: he ran a pragmatic, progressive, laid-back operation without any temptation to steal Reform's language or sound right-wing. That, Stewart argues, is the recipe for British politics. He identifies Morgan McSweeney's strategy — sounding like a 'mini-Reform' on certain issues without being able to project Labour's traditional optimism — as the worst possible approach, delivering neither the Reform vote nor the centre-left base.
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