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Starmer plays well with people like Starmer.
I'm not convinced by this. He's also winning people over by appearing prime ministerial. I wouldn't underestimate the impact of a middle-aged bloke in a nice suit.
Although PMQs as a whole aren't that relevant, the snippets from it that make up the news and the way it directs the political coverage do influence people.
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There is some truth in this.
At PMQs he doing a good job of being a QC at an enquiry, but so he should.
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I'm not convinced by this. He's also winning people over by appearing prime ministerial. I wouldn't underestimate the impact of a middle-aged bloke in a nice suit.
I'm not doing that. It's all academic at the moment, anyway, as it's highly unlikely that this 'Government' will collapse or call an early election and he'll have to bide his time for at least five years. Well, four and a half now, or four if they go back to having the election in May, come to think of it.
Peter_Carter
Oliver Schick
I'm sure you know my opinion of Johnson. He has always tried to pretend that by not being interested in detail he somehow has a grasp of big politics, which he does not. However, if you relentlessly repeat some stupid nonsense like 'Brexit' and nothing else, and thereby exploit the very real grievances people have, and then you're faced with some stickler for detail in the face of a terrible crisis who just seems to want to trip you up at every turn when you need your hands free to (supposedly) deal with the crisis, then who's the big politician?
Starmer plays well with people like Starmer. He has yet to show that he can transcend that. I mean, Johnson is a known liability, but at PMQs he'll simply start to do what he always did in the London Assembly, which is either not to answer questions or to be truculent and obstructive.