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  • I didn't vote for Starmer and remain convinced that he is not the right person to lead the Labour Party into the next General Election.

    I must say, however, that I am fascinated how obsessed the far right press are with him. The Times is really going overboard in their attacks on him. Why?

  • The Times is really going overboard in their attacks on him. Why?

    I think they perceive him as sufficiently right of "traditional labour" that he'll appeal broadly to voters.

  • Labour has such a crisis of leadership. Kier is really the most mediocre of a bad bunch.

  • I didn't vote for Starmer and remain convinced that he is not the right person to lead the Labour Party into the next General Election.

    I must say, however, that I am fascinated how obsessed the far right press are with him. The Times is really going overboard in their attacks on him. Why?

    My understanding - which is second hand as I don't read the Times but I do spend too long on Twitter - is that it comes from the far right of the Labour party having become impatient with Starmer, seeing he is not what they hoped, and now briefing against him. Essentially Mandelson, Campbell up to their old tricks again.

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