Even the Telegraph is saying nice things about him - ‘What all these alleged scandals in fact show is that the Left still doesn’t understand the nature or extent of its defeat in December. It keeps on expecting to turn around a veritable oil tanker of public opinion in one go by deploying the political equivalent of the handbrake from an ancient Austin Metro.
Interestingly, though, there is one senior Leftist who does seem to appreciate the basic political facts of life. And that is Sir Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition. He hasn’t leapt aboard any “resign” bandwagons. He has contented himself with broad and carefully calibrated observations about the Government being “too slow” to respond at various points in the crisis.’
A bit further on - ‘That’s hardly turning the amp up to eleven, more like about four. It doesn’t even allege bad faith on the part of ministers, let alone demand resignations. What it does show is that Starmer is in it for the long haul and understands the perils of coming across as a shallow opportunist (cynics among you might think that only a very high-level shallow opportunist would appreciate this point). This theme of “constructive opposition” was continued by Sir Keir in his understated but granular questioning of Dominic Raab in PMQs today.
So the Left in general continues to fail, reliably barking very loudly up the wrong tree at every conceivable opportunity. But we should understand that its new “Daddy” - to use the famous terminology of the cult borstal film “Scum” - appears to have a bit about him.’
